How to build an enterprise-grade AI software factory
AI agents have made writing code faster than ever, so the bottleneck has moved to everything around it, and engineering organizations are now building AI software factories where agents lead every step from idea to PR. Matar Peles, Field CTO at Port, explains how to make that work at enterprise scale with a unified context layer, agent and skill registries, governance and ROI tracking, then demos a full factory line in Port. Matar references Anthropic's AI-native SDLC playbook https://academy.claude.com/courses/ai-native-sdlc-playbook], the Port demo environment shown in the video https://www.port.io, and Port's AI software factory conference in San Francisco on November 17 and 18 https://portcon.port.io. 0:00 Welcome and audience poll 1:15 What this session covers 3:23 What is an AI software factory? 4:42 Traditional SDLC vs AI-native SDLC 6:38 Inside Anthropic's repo-based software factory 9:31 Factory lines: idea to PR, infra, incidents, CVEs 11:43 The real challenge: scaling, not chaining agents 13:54 Putting agents on deterministic rails 15:14 The pillars of an agentic SDLC platform 15:53 Foundation 1: a unified context layer 17:35 Foundation 2: agent, skill and MCP registries 19:01 Building the factory lines 19:41 Q: What does context look like in practice? 20:47 Governance for humans and agents 21:40 Self-improving lines and proving ROI 25:01 Demo: an AI software factory in Port 26:51 Demo: the context lake 30:39 Q: Port vs LangChain and LangGraph 32:44 Demo: the agent registry 34:27 Certifying agents and skills 36:52 Demo: assembling the factory line 38:47 The factory control room: cost, rework and quality 40:28 Q&A: benchmarks, scaffolding and human in the loop 43:03 Why one factory line won't fit your whole company 44:33 How the platform engineer's role is changing 46:36 Wrap-up and how to connect Ready to build your own AI software factory? Keep the momentum going: 📘 Get your copy of the book, Thinking in Platforms: https://weaveintelligence.io/thinking-in-platforms-book 💬 Compare factory lines and agent guardrails with thousands of platform engineers in our Community Slack channel: https://platformengineering.org/slack-rd 🔔 Follow us on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/company/platform-engineering-org 🎓 Continue your platform engineering journey with Platform Engineering University: https://university.platformengineering.org #PlatformEngineering #AISoftwareFactory #AgenticAI