Top all-time · #5355
Factory
Company blog · factory.ai/newsaiprogramming
Factory is the company blog at factory.ai, writing about ai and programming. Since 2024, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Agentic system design for software development”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Factory's site in hiring posts for its Droids, autonomous software development agents that review PRs, implement features, run tests and handle migrations for enterprise engineering teams.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Build faster with AI coding agents. Factory Droids automate coding, testing, and deployment for startups and enterprises.
Most-linked posts?
- Agentic system design for software development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-25
- Signals: Toward a Self-Improving Agent2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-26
- Factory AI Code Droid Achieves SOTA on SWE-Bench2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-18
What Hacker News says?
Factory | Security Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | Full-time Come work on my team! (We’re hiring lots of engineers right now, but I’m biased toward my own group today.) Factory builds software development agents that accelerate the world's largest enterprise engineering teams. We're helping customers including Nvidia, Adobe, Adyen, Klarna, and Ernst & Young turn their engineering organizations into autonomous d…
Comment linking /company
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)”Submitted Factory Raises $50M Series B as a story · 50 points
HN discussionFactory AI | AI, Fullstack, Frontend, Platform, Data, Product Engineers + GTM, Design, Operations | San Francisco, CA (+ NY, London for some roles) | ONSITE | Full-time | https://factory.ai At Factory we build Droids, autonomous software development agents that review PRs, implement features, run tests, fix incidents, and handle migrations for enterprise engineering teams. Droid is model agnostic and surface agnosti…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)”Submitted Factory – The Agentic Command Center for Building Software as a story · 20 points
HN discussionFactory | Security Engineer | ONSITE, San Francisco, CA | Full-Time - also - Factory | IT Operations Specialist | ONSITE, SF, CA | Full-Time My team at Factory's growing. Come work with me to beef up 1) our security stance, and 2) our IT program. We're growing rapidly and I want to get ahead of scaling issues. You'll work directly with me, with agency to define and evolve your own role. Today we need hands-on-keyboa…
Comment linking /careers/it-operations-specialist
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)”Submitted Agentic system design for software development as a story · 14 points
HN discussionFactory AI | AI, Fullstack, Frontend, Platform, Data, Product Engineers + GTM, Design, Operations | San Francisco, CA (+ NY, London for some roles) | ONSITE | Full-time | https://factory.ai At Factory we build Droids, autonomous software development agents that review PRs, implement features, run tests, fix incidents, and handle migrations for enterprise engineering teams. Droid is model agnostic and surface agnosti…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)”Submitted Using Linters to Direct Agents as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Factory AI Code Droid Achieves SOTA on SWE-Bench as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Droid: A general software development agent as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Droid achieves 19.27% on SWE-bench Full and 31.67% on SWE-bench Lite as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Droid Shield 2.0: learned secret detection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Factory introduces "Missions": multi-day autonomous software development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Droid Wars: Breaking up an AI‑orchestrated cyber fraud campaign as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatic LLM routing that optimizes cost and speed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Missions Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Signals: Toward a Self-Improving Agent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Signals: Toward a Self-Improving Agent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evaluating Context Compression for AI Agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Factory: Droids as AI Software Workforce as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
