We have raised $200M at a $5B valuation to scale self-improving software development in the enterprise. @FactoryAI has grown to serve hundreds of thousands of developers at companies including RBC, Adobe, Nvidia, T-Mobile, and Palo Alto Networks. We will use this capital to accelerate our investments in research, product, and global go-to-market.

"second tier because we put ourselves second and our customers first" overheard at @FactoryAI

didn't know we were a neolab! in this category, i must admit we are second-tier

One advantage of using a model agnostic platform like Factory is trust and resiliency against vendor lock-in. Key to that trust is visibility into spend. Now you can jump into the analytics and break down exactly where Droid is working best. User by user, session by session, model by model.

Great day to deliver shareholder value :) Use Factory to automate the low-leverage work and building becomes so much more fun. And the auto-model router means I don't need to remember which of the 10 models that came out this week is best.

We are terminating Chris Degnan for unethical conduct involving Cognition. The last few months have seen incredible progress in AI capabilities. San Francisco has flourished as new companies that solve new, more ambitious problems are finding great success. Generally, it is a wonderful time to be building. We at @FactoryAI have seen overwhelming interest in our model-agnostic coding agents and our software factory product. Our team has 10x’d in size, while our revenue has 100x’d year over year. This momentum has been unprecedented. A much larger competitor, Cognition (makers of Devin) has fallen behind us on the capabilities that matter most to customers: cost, quality, and security. Instead of competing in the market, Cognition engineers feigned interviews with us to pry information about our product. Not finding what they were looking for, Cognition has decided to throw their weight and money at people with direct knowledge of our most confidential plans. It feels as though ethics is being thrown out of the window in the AI era. People are willing to do anything, including exploiting privileged information and violating ethical boundaries. I think this is unique to our time, and I don’t think it’s right. Integrity still matters. Yesterday, I made the decision to immediately terminate Christopher Degnan’s roles as a Board Observer and Advisor to Factory, after over a year of service. Prior to this decision, Chris told me he had a casual conversation with an executive at Cognition AI. When I questioned his intentions, he reassured me that ethics aside, he had “made too much money” and was “too lazy to go work for Cognition,” which I trusted and believed. On Monday, Chris spent time advising the Factory team on a handful of confidential board-level matters. That evening, he called me to say that the conversation that was initially described as casual and one-off was actually formal and recurring. For weeks, while he sat in our board meetings and advised our leadership team, he was also confiding with executives of our largest competitor. Chris was subject to confidentiality obligations in connection with his work with Factory. We do not know the extent of the information he shared, but it puts his timely questions about our product roadmap and what the parity gap involves into a new light. It is sad to sever a relationship with someone who has been a trusted advisor - and even a close friend - for over a year. But Chris’s conduct is unacceptable to me. Trust in Board Membership is one of the sacred bonds in the Silicon Valley, one that helps the startup ecosystem thrive. With it comes an enormous responsibility. That trust was violated. Competition is good. I respect and in many cases admire our competitors. San Francisco is a beautiful, singular place where the bold and ambitious go to defy the norms and precedents of the past. But certain principles that must remain. Violating ethics to seek advantage turns what should be positive-sum into zero-sum. We all love technology. And we all love to compete. But we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. The future of software engineering comes with abundance that will impact every person on Earth. Building that future comes with immense responsibility. We must build and compete with integrity.

postcard from the factory slack

As a former theoretical physicist I can attest: You will not notice anything as you cross the event horizon. Your watch keep ticking, everything around you looks normal. For AGI, we have already crossed the event horizon. So far so good, but lots of work left to be done.

GUESS WHO'S BACK, BABY!! @FactoryAI Finally!

I decided to put this to the test. $25 of credits on Droid vs Devin. Devin ran out in under an hour. It burned through usage. Droid ran for 8 hours, finished the task, and still had several dollars left over. You guys are doing some kind of black magic with your harness.

Sonnet 5.5 is live in Factory. Some initial observations: - High is a strong default - Checks that the real requirement is met, not just the nearest failing test - Questions explanations carried over from earlier work Try it now: factory.com/

I underestimated how soon this would come

we know we have hit ASI when we start measuring the intelligence of models by the questions they ask, instead of the questions they answer

Every job i’ve gotten in tech has been through X and I’ve always wanted a way to track/refer my network on here. Excited about @cosign and what @david__booth @eriktorenberg and co are building. Check out the companies I think you should join: cosign.co/lists/sonofalli/co…

Big Token hates this one simple trick! Dynamic model routing allows for a more efficient free market across the model providers. This puts pricing pressure on them to provide the best/fastest/cheapest tokens for any given task, lest the tokens get routed to a competing model.

POV life without @FactoryAI

Underrated. Early employees at all now legendary companies would probably say the same about when they started, and left when the fun slowed.

Introducing Teams. Bring Factory to your whole engineering team. With Teams, you can now add multiple users to a self-serve plan with centralized billing. Delegate bug fixes, tests, and migrations to Droids while your team focuses on what to build next.

One of the reasons we will win is because we are having more fun

This is true and is a process that has been in place for the last few million years, since man first used a tool. Yet man has managed to find and rediscover sources of meaning again and again. Turns out, much meaning can be found along the long, long ride to the asymptotic limit. This time will be no different.

👀 @FactoryAI