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

Matan GrinbergguestKai Gillhost

Oct 23, 202610mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: October 23, 2026
Duration: 10m
Channel: Claude
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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

SPEAKERS

Matan Grinberg
guest
Founder of Factory and former theoretical physics PhD focused on string theory and related topics.
Kai Gill
host
Host/interviewer on Claude, leading conversations with guests about building with Claude and Anthropic models.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Claude, featuring Matan Grinberg and Kai Gill, How Factory is building autonomous software with Claude explores factory’s “dark factory” vision: autonomous droids powered by Claude Matan Grinberg recounts moving from string theory PhD research to founding Factory after becoming obsessed with program synthesis/code generation and realizing the hardest problems live inside messy enterprise codebases.

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