⚡️ The 2026 Software Factory Infra Stack — Zach Lloyd, Warp.dev

Software factories at Warp: founder and CEO Zach Lloyd walks swyx through the system his team uses to turn tasks into pull requests, measure agent quality, and improve the workflow itself. The demo follows a request from Slack to a PR, then explores shared agent traces, cost and throughput scoring, and benchmarks built from real engineering work. Zach reports that tuning models and subagent use brought Warp’s internal cost from about $80 per PR to roughly $15–20, alongside higher throughput. How do software factories change the work of product engineers? What belongs in a benchmark? And how can agents help improve the factory that runs them? Join Zach and the AI engineering community at AIE CODE, November 10–12, 2026 in San Francisco. Apply to attend: ai.engineer/code/2026 Chapters 0:00 Introduction: software factories at Warp 0:53 AIE CODE in San Francisco 1:31 Zach Lloyd and software factories 4:30 Define the factory in code 7:34 Follow a Slack request to a PR 8:41 Measure cost, throughput and quality 14:32 Agents improving the factory 16:10 Benchmark your own tasks 23:59 From $80 to $15–20 per PR 27:03 Who needs software factories? 33:23 Product engineers and factory engineers Links • Warp: warp.dev/ • AIE CODE: ai.engineer/code/2026 • Zach Lloyd — Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering: youtu.be/tUPPVhBBcoM • Suraj Gupta — Building Self-Improving Agent Software Factories: youtu.be/TN3mj92oZ8I • Latent Space: latent.space/ Sponsorship and business inquiries: business@latent.space #SoftwareFactories #Warp #AIEngineering