I'm comparing cost per $ of revenue, not labor. And my math is for a scenario assuming a company is running this type of software factory year-round.
Now one could say that the same feature that a customer would've paid $1M for was done in $4k instead of $160k. But buyers are going to demand much more as they see this kind of pace. You'd be able to charge maybe only $10k, because your opportunity cost goes down since you only spent 2 days; you can't keep the same margins that you needed to in order to justify spending 9 months on it. I think it gets very complicated and we're yet to see these economic effects.
Now one could say that the same feature that a customer would've paid $1M for was done in $4k instead of $160k. But buyers are going to demand much more as they see this kind of pace. You'd be able to charge maybe only $10k, because your opportunity cost goes down since you only spent 2 days; you can't keep the same margins that you needed to in order to justify spending 9 months on it. I think it gets very complicated and we're yet to see these economic effects.