How Factory is building autonomous software with Claude

Factory is bringing autonomy to software engineering with Droids, AI coding agents that handle enterprise work. In this conversation, Co-founder and CEO Matan Grinberg sits down with Anthropic's Kai Gill to talk about his journey founding Factory, how Claude's frontier models handle long-horizon tasks across large codebases so teams can trust agent plans with less oversight, and what it will take to build a fully autonomous "dark factory" for software. Read the full story: http://claude.com/customers/factory Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:19 From string theory to founding Factory 1:48 The mission: autonomy for software engineering 2:22 Lessons from being too early 2:58 Droids and the "dark factory" 4:09 A COBOL modernization with 90% less human effort 4:58 When Droids need frontier models 5:29 What Opus unlocks: less human oversight 6:31 Shipping 300 things and rethinking what matters 7:11 The Anthropic partnership 8:12 What's blocking the dark factory 9:31 Advice for would-be founders