The Neuron: AI Explained This AI Agent Builds Better Code Than Most Developers (Factory AI)
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Jan 27, 2026 
Eno Reyes, Co-founder and CTO of Factory AI and leader in autonomous coding agents, explains Droids: fully autonomous agents that edit real codebases, run tests, and plug into dev workflows. He discusses context compression research, what makes a codebase agent-ready, model routing strategies, long-session handling, and safety guardrails for real-world autonomy.
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Autonomy Solves The Whole Dev Process
- The biggest bottleneck in software orgs is the end-to-end process, not just writing code.
- Droids target context, planning, and stitching tasks together rather than mere autocomplete.
From Slack Prototype To Production
- Factory's droid vision was autonomous from day one and began as a Slack bot prototype in 2023.
- Early adopters found it worked but users needed help learning the new interaction pattern.
Tiny Binary, Big Reach
- A Droid is a tiny self-contained binary that orchestrates LLM calls and runs anywhere.
- That simplicity enables modular use in terminals, IDEs, CI/CD, cron jobs and more.