⚡ Inside the 2026 SOTA of Software Factories with @zachlloydtweets of @warpdotdev!
Warp's open source cloud factory approach has been resonating bigly this year, leading to multiple top @aiDotEngineer talks and an invitation to keynote this year's AIE CODE.
Zach talks through the philosophy, demos Warp’s live system, and reports that tuning models and reducing redundant subagents can lower costs from ~$80 to ~$15–20 per PR and raise throughput 40% over the prior month, while keeping quality!
Full episode below: from a Slack request to a PR, then into the work of measuring and improving software factories.
0:00 Software factories at Warp
0:53 AIE CODE in San Francisco
1:31 Zach Lloyd and software factories
4:30 Define the factory in code
7:34 Follow a Slack request to a PR
8:41 Measure cost, throughput and quality
14:32 Agents improving the factory
16:10 Benchmark your own tasks
23:59 From $80 to $15–20 per PR
27:03 Who needs software factories?
33:23 Product engineers and factory engineers
See Zach at @aiDotEngineer CODE, Nov 10–12 in San Francisco: https://ai.engineer/code