"We don't need to live like this." Matan Grinberg (@matanSF) is the founder and CEO of @FactoryAI, a startup building AI agents, called droids, that handle software engineering the way no single AI lab wants them to: independent of any one model. His conviction is that AI's real constraint isn't capability. It's that the industry keeps building tools locked to one company's model, leaving that company free to dictate the terms of how you can use it. (0:00) Intro (3:50) Noether’s theorem explained (10:53) Why there will always be more problems to solve (20:10) Why Factory abstracts away model choice (35:33) How Matan got into string theory (41:53) Startup founders vs. theoretical physicists (52:53) The origins of Factory (1:08:11) Matan’s predictions for the future of AI and Factory Thank you to the partners who make this possible @dottechdomains: An identity for builders at their core: @brexHQ: The intelligent finance platform: @withpersona: Trusted identity verification for any use case: