No longer will they be the sole custodians of building the software. Instead, they will be responsible for building the factories that build the software. With this comes the responsibility of governance, safety, and the ownership of business outcomes.
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Context. From Factory's Factory 2.0 announcement; “they” refers to engineers.
Post: Factory 2.0: From coding agents to software factories, Factory (own site), June 15, 2026.
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No organization starts with a fully autonomous software factory. Autonomy is a maturation process that is gradual and specific to every organization’s readiness and comfort level.
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Post: Factory 2.0: From coding agents to software factories, Factory (own site), June 15, 2026.
The software factory starts with signals from the outside world: bug reports, internal conversations, customer feedback, business requirements. These signals get triaged and turned into planned changes. These changes are built, tested, reviewed, secured, shipped, and monitored. Monitoring that deployed software generates more signals. The entire system is a continuous feedback loop.
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Post: Factory 2.0: From coding agents to software factories, Factory (own site), June 15, 2026.
Well-defined, measurable tasks run with simple Droid agents or skills. Automations coordinate recurring workflows with a shared objective and memory. Remote and persistent execution leverages Droid Computers for long running or local agents. Multi-agent autonomous execution called Missions solve complex tasks over hours or days by decomposing work into parallel tracks to handle.
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Post: Factory 2.0: From coding agents to software factories, Factory (own site), June 15, 2026.
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