The AI Coding Factory
May 29, 2025
Episode description
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
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