Grant Harvey

Doing good.

I'm excited because today we are digging into the rise of autonomous software agents.

Factory AI is one of the fastest growing companies in this space, building droids that can take tickets, modify real code bases, and work inside existing dev workflows.

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What problem with agentic coding were you trying to solve when starting Factory?

Like what felt broken about how software teams worked at the time that you started it?

So how did your background at Hugging Face shape the way that you approach the autonomy question, I guess?

And I thought you had, you have four kind of main ones that you were kind of marketing at first.

I think you touched on some of those, like a security one, or like ones that are customized for different use cases.

Is that accurate?

Or has it expanded since then?

I've heard that Droid is kind of almost like an engineering team that runs in the background.

You can use it in that way.

you're a research company and the agent is going in and it's deciding or it's figuring out, is this environment good for me?

My question is, how does it know to do that?

Is that like a system prompt or is that something you trained into the harness?

How does it know to look for those things?

And I guess the second thing is, would you ever create your own models because you are doing research?

Is that on your roadmap?