@flybayer @FactoryAI we have: 1. Cloud agents and strong environment/template primitives 2. A model independent harness 3. Transparent BYOK pricing + great team deals 4. Fleet management 5. Enterprise controls 6. Desktop/web/mobile/slack/linear 7. Native integrations to 100+ other tools

ICYMI - there are a lot of incredible women building in AI in SF 💃 Huge thanks @FactoryAI @SapienneAI @sequoia and all our incredible speakers and attendees. First of many!

People often ask me the non-eng teams that have gotten the most leverage out of AI internally. Finance is near the top of the list for us -- check out how we use Droid to stay within ~3% of month-end close at any point in time in the month, automate AR, AP and more.

We're excited to share our customer story with @claudeai featuring Factory co-founder and CEO @matanSF. We cover topics like how @AnthropicAI frontier models in @Droid are enabling engineering teams to handle long-horizon tasks across large codebases, what it will take to build a fully autonomous "dark factory" for software, and more.

I met Andrea at Raise this summer when she came up to pitch a partnership together. We stayed in touch and when we first discussed bringing on a BD lead to build out EMEA, she was the first person who came to mind. She is deeply curious, relentless, and passionate about the diffusion of agentic software development. Thrilled to have you join the team.

I've tried more than once to get into Gymkhana in London. No luck. Luckily for me, @Traversal and @Factory are taking over Gymkhana in Vegas for AWS re:Invent. The @AmericanExpress CTO will kick it off, and then I’ll be moderating a conversation with @_anish_agarwal from @traversal_ai , @matanSF from @FactoryAI, @SamarAtTemporal from @temporalio , @hwchase17 from @LangChain, and @paraga from @p0 Tuesday, Dec 1.

Easy decision! We know a tier 1 AI company when we see it! excited to be working you, @EnoReyes, and the entire @FactoryAI team! What you’ve accomplished this year is breathtaking, and so much more to come!

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.