Emily Wen

[luke @luke_alvoeiro]

incredibly excited to announce that droid is now v1.0 - we've modernized just about every part of our cli, including a full rewrite to the agentic engine that powers it.

reflecting on the last few months leading this project, it has been awesome to see how heavily the team has embodied factory's operating principle of "build together," which is timely considering the doomer phase our industry is going through.

"software factory" is a term everyone is throwing around these days but it often gives the vibe that humans are no longer in the loop. for factory, this couldn't be further from the truth. our agent factory is human-first: @ain3sh, @wenemilyy, @agent_crunchwrap and i went through every PR droid proposed, threw out the changes that overfit to a single model, and pushed droid to keep going. we collaborated on sessions together, experimented with hundreds of approaches, and fought the slop we left behind via huge refactors that we only had confidence in due to the extensive e2e tests we invested in half a year ago.

getting to this point wasn't easy. it involved challenging our priors on how agents should work, deviating from old patterns, and setting innovative goals for our harness to hillclimb itself towards.

attached is the video of the process that got us here - the result is the world's best agent.

droid is back in first place, and we're here to stay.

[Emily Wen @wenemilyy]

harness matters! droid 1.0 is faster and more cost effective than ever. excited to reveal how droid works under the hood with programmatic tool calling - turns out models just want to write code

been fun working with @luke_alvoeiro and @ain3sh on this!

[Factory @factory]

On Terminal-Bench 4, Droid outperforms popular models’ native harnesses, with up to 20% better efficiency.

[Emily Wen @wenemilyy]

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[Factory @factory]

We've raised $200M at a $5B valuation to scale self-improving software development in the enterprise.

The round brings our total funding to over $400M and more than triples our $1.5B valuation from April.