Arjun Krishna

Founding MTS @8090solutions
Building the Software Factory with @chamath at ❤️ coding. Prev. Eng at @UWaterloo

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

How a tweet led to me joining @chamath's new company @8090solutions:
(We are hiring 10x engineers! Share a project you've built that you are most proud of if interested!)

My friend @TheZachEffect works with the summit and was telling me about the great speakers last year (@tobi @MrBeast , etc).
Major FOMO. But the $7000+ ticket was outside my student budget

My friend @ZoomifiGuy was going and shared @Jason's post giving away one free ticket
I knew I had to give it a shot!

I thought about why I wanted to go
As a Waterloo engineering student I'm in a bubble of engineers and technical people
But most people using technology are very different from me
I wanted to talk to people who are interested in technology/AI but come from different backgrounds. What are they excited for/interested in?
Packaged this up in a Tweet and hit "Post"

To my surprise, @Jason gave me the ticket! So within a day I booked a flight, got on a plane and flew from Toronto to Los Angeles for a conference

@heidibraun helped get me into the "VIP" dinner (thank you!)
There I saw @chamath. He was mobbed by people so it was hard to get a word in and talk to him
I saw him go to the washroom and took my chance
I went in as well and started washing my hands
Five minutes later Chamath joins me and I introduce myself, tell him I'm a @UWaterloo student and talk about my project dubbah dot co I had built with my friend @povgoggles
He tells me about his new company @8090solutions , and tells me to send my resume to his email

I meet with his team. Instantly impressed by how smart they are and their technical chops. They liked me too and the rest is history!

Big thanks to @Yung_Spielburg for letting me crash on his couch!

It was also great seeing old friends and making new ones:
@BigBrother_Jane @drfzs @ChrisMadden_

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

@DevanBaucom Truueeee! ROFL

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

The Weeknd = Greg Brockman
Drake = Andrej Karpathy

[Michael Fischer @Holden_Rye_]

I’ve been using Software Factory. I’m moving out of Replit, using my own agents and now Software Factory.

Replit / Lovable / Bolt are great when you want to move fast.

Prompt then generate app/code fast.

But 8090 Software Factory is different.

Idea, then requirements, then architecture decisions, then work orders, then the AI agents/code agents execute, the humans review, the issues stay organized.

Because AI coding is powerful, but it can get messy fast. You start with one idea, then the LLM takes you down five different paths, dependencies stack up, bugs get buried, and suddenly you’re not building anymore.

Software Factory seems built for the part most AI coding tools skip: turning messy product intent into organized engineering execution.

It gives the AI more context.
It gives the human more visibility.
It turns “vibe coding” into something closer to an actual software production system.

Basically, its not slop.

For me, that makes sense. My problem is not ideas. My problem is staying linear, documenting as I go, tracking bugs, and not forgetting what needs to be fixed. Software Factory looks like it was built for exactly that gap.

@TheOneAndArjun

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

FastAPI and Django are the only valid options

[UI/UX Savior @UiSavior]

🤩

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

We just added multi-repo indexing.

Now all your projects can live inside of Software Factory.

Why would you want that?

Most large organizations have a complex application stack with tons of microservices - some are mono-repo, some services and products sit across repos. Managing this is difficult and the models can easily get confused when you point an agent at a problem.

Software Factory allows you to create one holistic knowledge graph across all your code.

Then apply powerful collaboration, governance and control features and a large cross functional team can now build software in a very powerful, new way.

See why many enterprises are increasingly picking us: https://t.co/fkfTXgdfXK

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

@MikeCherneski @chamath The bar for quality, uptime, consistency is much higher for enterprise

[just business @OneWordPowerful]

Good art challenges its viewers.

[Arjun* @mxtaverse]

One of my fav Jeff Bezos quotes:

"Stress does not come from hardwork. Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over."

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

We should get brunch

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

Take my money

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

IYKYK

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

@erikfinman @chamath Yup, Software Factory makes what you're building with AI verifiable

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

@jvivas_official @chamath Cool JV! Try Software Factory with Wendell and let me know what you think. If you can build out the testing framework with our MCP would love to caht

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

@DBirker78883 @chamath Cool Daniel, getting the intent right is step 1 in allowing decentralized AI agents to self-coordinate. Would love for you to try Software Factory and let us know what you think!

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

@Daniel_Alami @chamath Thanks for sharing Dani! Will take a look

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

@sawinyh @chamath Yup, serious software needs a control plane. That's what vibe coding misses and Software Factory provides

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

@Dagnum_PI @chamath Cool, try Gate AI with Software Factory! Would love to hear your feedback

[Arjun Krishna @TheOneAndArjun]

@Holden_Rye_ @chamath Hey Michael, sure sign up for a seat and email me arjun at 8090 dot ai and Ill refund your first month!