Factory is bringing autonomy to software engineering with Droids, AI coding agents that handle enterprise work. In this conversation, Co-founder and CEO Matan Grinberg sits down with Anthropic's Kai Gill to talk about his journey founding Factory, how Claude's frontier models handle long-horizon tasks across large codebases so teams can trust agent plans with less oversight, and what it will take to build a fully autonomous "dark factory" for software.
Read the full story: http://claude.com/customers/factory
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:19 From string theory to founding Factory
1:48 The mission: autonomy for software engineering
2:22 Lessons from being too early
2:58 Droids and the "dark factory"
4:09 A COBOL modernization with 90% less human effort
4:58 When Droids need frontier models
5:29 What Opus unlocks: less human oversight
6:31 Shipping 300 things and rethinking what matters
7:11 The Anthropic partnership
8:12 What's blocking the dark factory
9:31 Advice for would-be founders
Read the full story: http://claude.com/customers/factory
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:19 From string theory to founding Factory
1:48 The mission: autonomy for software engineering
2:22 Lessons from being too early
2:58 Droids and the "dark factory"
4:09 A COBOL modernization with 90% less human effort
4:58 When Droids need frontier models
5:29 What Opus unlocks: less human oversight
6:31 Shipping 300 things and rethinking what matters
7:11 The Anthropic partnership
8:12 What's blocking the dark factory
9:31 Advice for would-be founders