We are joined by Eno Reyes and Matan Grinberg, the co-founders of Factory.ai. They are building droids for autonomous software engineering, handling everything from code generation to incident response for production outages. After raising a $15M Series A from Sequoia, they just released their product in GA!
https://factory.ai/
https://x.com/latentspacepod
Chapters
- 00:00:00 Introductions
- 00:00:35 Meeting at Langchain Hackathon
- 00:04:02 Building Factory despite early model limitations
- 00:06:56 What is Factory AI?
- 00:08:55 Delegation vs Collaboration in AI Development Tools
- 00:10:06 Naming Origins of 'Factory' and 'Droids'
- 00:12:17 Defining Droids: Agent vs Workflow
- 00:14:34 Live Demo
- 00:17:37 Enterprise Context and Tool Integration in Droids
- 00:20:26 Prompting, Clarification, and Agent Communication
- 00:22:28 Project Understanding and Proactive Context Gathering
- 00:24:10 Why SWE-Bench Is Dead
- 00:28:47 Model Fine-tuning and Generalization Challenges
- 00:31:07 Why Factory is Browser-Based, Not IDE-Based
- 00:33:51 Test-Driven Development and Agent Verification
- 00:36:17 Retrieval vs Large Context Windows for Cost Efficiency
- 00:38:02 Enterprise Metrics: Code Churn and ROI
- 00:40:48 Executing Large Refactors and Migrations with Droids
- 00:45:25 Model Speed, Parallelism, and Delegation Bottlenecks
- 00:50:11 Observability Challenges and Semantic Telemetry
- 00:53:44 Hiring
- 00:55:19 Factory's design and branding approach
- 00:58:34 Closing Thoughts and Future of AI-Native Development
