Code Engineering: From Coding Agents to Software Factories
Code Engineering: From Coding Agents to Software Factories
Following the strong response to Harness Engineering: State of the Art in Agent Harnesses, which attracted more than 1,000 people on Luma and 300 people attended an event at AWS Builder Loft. Some 🎥 the snapshot from the event here
The Agent Engineering HQ returns to San Francisco 🌉 for the next event in the *.engineering series. Our Next event will be on the Coding agents and related tools with amazing companies innovating in this space.
💻 Code Engineering : Coding Agents, Software Factories and more
Coding agents can now navigate large repositories, plan changes, write and refactor code, execute tools, run tests, and work asynchronously. The next challenge is turning these capabilities into reliable systems that operate across the full software development lifecycle. Some of the agent engineering practices around coding agents are Context Engineering. Memory Engineering. Harness Engineering. Eval Engineering. Loop Engineering. Graph Engineering. Recursion EngineeringCode Engineering provides a common framework for the transition from coding agents to Software Factories? Coding agent harness landing almost every week now and this space is changing super fast. This event will bring together engineers and companies building coding agents, agent harnesses, execution infrastructure, verification systems and Software Factories to investigate these questions.
🎙️Speakers
Talk 1: Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM and Continual Harness
🎙️Speaker: Seth Karten (@sethkarten)
Research @ Prime Intellect | Lead on Prime Agent & Continual Harness
Talk 2: Warp Factories and Agents
🎙️Speaker: Ben Holmes (@BHolmesDev)
Agent Infrastructure @ Warp
Title: Building a self-improving software factory
Abstract: Interactive agents aren’t scaling. Every company is coping with runaway costs, lack of governance, and difficulty automating. This has led to the need for software factories: a closed-loop system for automating development, with primitives that provably improve throughput and efficiency over time.
Right now, folks are trying to roll their own internal software factories from bare metal, solving the same problems 100 different ways. We need shared, flexible infrastructure that everyone can build upon.
In this talk, we’ll share the core building blocks every company needs to build their own self-improving software factories based on our own experience building Warp Factories:
1. Cloud infrastructure to centralize agent conversations, skills, and security permissions
2. Configuration as code for humans and agents to manage that cloud infrastructure
3. Metrics for humans and agents to track efficiency and code quality, beyond “number of PRs shipped”
4. Self-improvement loops for agents to review past conversations, score the quality, and propose improvements to the skills driving the factory
You’ll walk away with a clear understanding of how to improve coding agent ROI, and how to deploy a system of your own using Warp Factories.
Talk 3: Building agents that work like coding agents
🎙️Speaker: Sydney Runkle (sydneyrunkle)
Product Manager for Open Source at LangChain
Coding agents have made by far the greatest impact on an industry yet, and there's a lot to learn from the primitives they use to be effective. We're building an agent harness that borrows those primitives and generalizes them so that you can build agents that work like coding agents for any domain.
Topics
The technical program will examine:
Context, memory and repository intelligence for coding agents
Harness design, tool use, permissions and execution environments
Loop Engineering and the design of autonomous execution cycles
Graph-based coordination across agents, tools and development stages
Recursive planning, delegation, verification and error recovery
Multi-agent orchestration across the software development lifecycle
The architecture and operating model of agent-native Software Factories
Format
The event will combine concise technical presentations coding agent companies and infra companies supporting the coding agents and software factories.
Agenda (tentative)
This is tentative agenda and will evolve as speakers and talk finalised.
6:00–6:40 PM — Registration, networking and refreshments
6:40–6:50 PM — Opening and Welcome
6:50–7:50 PM — Code Engineering thesis talks
7:50–8:25 PM — Closing synthesis
Continue the discussion with speakers, founders and other practitioners.
Who should attend?
This event is designed for:
Software, platform, AI/ML and Agent engineers
Coding-agent and harness developers
CTOs and engineering leaders and Founders of developer tools companies.
Researchers working on software-engineering agents
Organizations deploying coding agents in production
Presented by Agent Engineering HQ, the *.engineering event series for agentic AI engineering.