Dev Interrupted Presents: The Software Factory Roundtable
So you wanna build a software factory, huh? How will you know it works? Let's find out!
About this conversation
Engineering teams everywhere are being told to build a software factory: agents that triage, spec, implement, review and ship with a human in, on, or sometimes outside, the loop. In this first-of-its-kind industry roundtable hosted by LinearB, the context layer for engineering leaders, we're sitting down with experts who have seen the future factories that will come to be:
Zach Lloyd at Warp argues the factory is exactly what engineers are now paid to build, and has published how he measures whether it is paying for itself.
Dex Horthy at HumanLayer ran the fully automated factory and later shut it down, because the damage showed up weeks after the tests went green and nothing warned him it was coming.
What you'll take away
What broke when a factory ran with people out of the loop, from the founder who shut his down
Which parts of the pull request lifecycle are worth automating first, and what changes when they move off individual laptop
The signals that tell you a factory is compounding value rather than quietly accruing debt
How teams are putting a real cost against what their agents ship, and why generated output and delivered work are not the same number
Speakers
Dex Horthy, founder and CEO at HumanLayer
Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO at Warp
Dan Lines, co-founder and COO at LinearB
Andrew Zigler, host of Dev Interrupted (moderator)
Presented by
Dev Interrupted, the podcast and newsletter for engineering leaders, from LinearB.