Droids, software development agents, AI Factory Inc., San Francisco, California, USA

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Article "Sequoia Backs AI Startup That Automates Engineering Tasks"
Factory is using AI to help businesses generate software features, review code and solve bugs.

by Sarah McBride
June 18, 2024

 

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Factory’s Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes Unleash the Droids on Software Development | Training Data

Jun 25, 2024

Archimedes said that with a large enough lever, you can move the world. For decades, software engineering has been that lever. And now, AI is compounding that lever. How will we use AI to apply 100 or 1000x leverage to the greatest lever to move the world?Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes, co-founders of Factory, have chosen to do things differently than many of their peers in this white-hot space. They sell a fleet of “Droids,” purpose-built dev agents which accomplish different tasks in the software development lifecycle (like code review, testing, pull requests or writing code). Rather than training their own foundation model, their approach is to build something useful for engineering orgs today on top of the rapidly improving models, aligning with the developer and evolving with them. Matan and Eno are optimistic about the effects of autonomy in software development and on building a company in the application layer. Their advice to founders, “The only way you can win is by executing faster and being more obsessed.”Hosted by: Sonya Huang and Pat Grady, Sequoia Capital

(01:36) Personal backgrounds
(10:54) The compound lever
(12:41) What is Factory?
(16:29) Cognitive architectures
(21:13) 800 engineers at OpenAI are working on my margins
(24:00) Jeff Dean doesn't understand your code base
(25:40) Individual dev productivity vs system-wide optimization
(30:04) Results: Factory in action
(32:54) Learnings along the way
(35:36) Fully autonomous Jeff Deans
(37:56) Beacons of the upcoming age
(40:04) How far are we?
(43:02) Competition
(45:32) Lightning round
(49:34) Bonus round: Factory's SWE-bench results

 

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An unfiltered conversation with Matan Grinberg, CEO of Factory AI

Jul 23, 2025

Join Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick for a conversation with Matan Grinberg, CEO of Factory AI, about the future of software development, the launch of Factory, the challenges of scaling up autonomous coding agents, and the pivot that led to Factory building Droids.

Chapters
00:00 Factory's Mission and Vision
02:25 Expanding the Developer Audience
05:25 Understanding the Droids
08:22 Enterprise Use Cases and Adoption
12:17 Balancing Delegation and Control
15:24 Training the Droids17:25 Enterprise First Approach
20:13 Future Expectations and User Experience
23:14 Unexpected Use Cases and PM Engagement
26:39 The Evolution of Droid Naming and Personality
29:24 Impact of Model Progress on Developer Behavior
33:26 The Future of Product Velocity and Developer Taste
37:27 Balancing Speed and Quality in Product Development
41:14 Unlocking New Capabilities in AI Models
43:23 Overcoming Initial Challenges and Finding Success
48:24 Looking Ahead: The Future of Developers and AI