I'm not sure building furnace is a good metaphor for crafting good software.
The nature of software is that every piece of it can be mass produced (copied and distributed) once the first piece is finished. All the 'artisan' effort goes into making that first copy.
The nature of software is that every piece of it can be mass produced (copied and distributed) once the first piece is finished. All the 'artisan' effort goes into making that first copy.