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

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

[@ozgurgulerx]

Eno's insights on reasoning layer are very good! 👏

[@ravindersyal6613]

I am pretty sure that we are going to need agents to curate enterprise data because it is local but there is nothing about coding, testing etc wouldn't be solved at the model level ? Matan himself alluded to this, models getting better gives them better results.

[@ParnianMotamedi]

is the sequoi digital currency?
it listed in pancake swap?
Please answer me soon i'm in hurry

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

Isn’t this the same as Devin?

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

I think more concrete points instead of generalities would have been more interesting.

[@jonathanpolitzki9128]

CEO saying the things he thinks he should say

[@denisblack9897]

Cool animations and design, guys! Too bad llms cant code real problems😅
They are cool for getting familiar with basic stuff in languages you dont know and writing mock documentation. Thats kinda it.
No matter how you sell it - llm coding is a scam. People gonna “create” shitty code, be happy for a while and then abandon it.