Kyle Lange

RD @ Factory

[Factory @FactoryAI]

Factory is partnering with @databricks to bring autonomous software engineering to enterprise data and AI.

Droids can build, migrate, and secure software directly on Databricks, using the data, models, and governance enterprises already trust.

[Kyle Lange @Kplange18]

@walk_hild 🐐🐐

[Kyle Lange @Kplange18]

Assistant to the Regional Compute Manager: OpenCompute lets any organization run agentic compute in their environment, on top of their existing compute providers.

#DroidFleetWeek

[Kyle Lange @Kplange18]

@FactoryAI 🤝 City of Champions

Surreal to see Factory’s vision illuminate space across one of the most historic cities in the states.

We’re bringing autonomy to the SDLC and hiring across the globe!

[Kyle Lange @Kplange18]

Dwight can now manage his Droids from Schrute Farms.

Remote Control keeps your fleet in reach, even when you step away from your desk.

#DroidFleetWeek

[Factory @FactoryAI]

Today we are introducing Remote Control.

Your Droids run on a persistent self-managed remote machine, scoped to an individual user or service.

[Kyle Lange @Kplange18]

@selzer25 I thought the Office reference would keep me in the clear

[Kyle Lange @Kplange18]

Bears. Beets. Backlog.

If Dwight ran the engineering team, the Droids would already be on it. It’s #DroidFleetWeek. Let’s go!

[Ashank Shah @ashankshah_x]

We started Mentlio with the core thesis that the era of autonomous software engineering will require both cost efficiency and clear measurement of the business value it creates. Excited to share that we’re joining Factory to continue building towards this future!

From early conversations with @EnoReyes and the Factory team, it became clear that we share a vision for where software engineering is headed. What really stood out to us was Factory's ambition, pace of execution, and culture of ownership; we couldn’t be more excited to build alongside this team.

Huge thank you to YC, our investors, and everyone who supported us throughout Mentlio's journey.

Excited for what’s next!

[Eno Reyes @EnoReyes]

In the era of abundant intelligence, great companies will become inference allocators. Firms will identify increasingly sophisticated ways to determine how to create value and seek alpha with their inference allocation strategies.

The team at Mentlio recognizes this - and we are excited to have them join us to accelerate towards this future.

[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

"second tier because we put ourselves second and our customers first"

overheard at @FactoryAI

[Kyle Lange @Kplange18]

Custom Automations are here!

[Factory @FactoryAI]

Custom Automations are now GA in Factory.

Describe a recurring workflow, pick a schedule or event trigger, and Droid runs it to the intended result. You choose the model, the machine, and Connectors for each automation.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

Lessons:

1) avoid people that are coin operated

2) and pay attention to the warning signs along the way

[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

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.

[Kyle Lange @Kplange18]

We’re live in Boston! #factory

[Eno Reyes @EnoReyes]

I spend a lot of time thinking about what has to happen for better models to become better software. The research progress is remarkable, but there’s still a lot of work between a model gaining a capability and someone being able to depend on it.

That work is interesting in its own right. Understanding a codebase, fitting into how a team operates, knowing when a result is wrong, making something reliable enough that people can stop checking every step. Better models help with all of this, but someone still has to take responsibility for the whole system.

It is now clear that it’s nothing short of critical that some of the companies doing that work are model-independent. Different models are useful for different things, and those tradeoffs keep changing. We should be able to choose based on what works for a customer, and change our minds when the evidence changes. Customers shouldn’t have to make a long-term bet on a research lab to improve how they build software. We shouldn’t have to trust the creator of the model to do what’s best for their customers. We should force them to in order to compete.

There’s a business model question here too. If we find a way to do the same work reliably with less inference, that should be a good thing for both us and the customer. If another lab makes a breakthrough, we should be excited to put it to use. Independence doesn’t automatically create that alignment, but it gives us more room to build around it.

I’m interested in where intelligence research goes. I just don’t think every AI company needs reaching AGI to be its organizing purpose. Helping people build things they couldn’t build before is a substantial goal on its own, with useful measures of progress along the way.

That’s how I think about Factory, and what makes today’s funding meaningful to me. More room to work on these problems, with our attention on the people using the software.

[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

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.

[Claude @claudeai]

New on Claude Marketplace: @CrowdStrike, @cursor_ai, @FactoryAI, @GammaApp, and @vercel.

Enterprises can now use their Anthropic spend commitment to buy more Claude-powered products and agents.

Get started: https://t.co/L14yHet6h3

[Eno Reyes @EnoReyes]

The companies that win will own the verification, state, learning loops, and workflows around the model. We chat about this, open models, and more.

Thanks for having me @HarryStebbings!

[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

Excited to share that all SpaceXAI models and all OpenAI models are available 60% off for the next week in @FactoryAI.

Two genuinely fantastic model families that complement each other in ways that make them better than the sum of their parts!