Moving from interactive agents to software factories

Most engineering orgs today are in the same place: everyone has an interactive coding agent on their laptop, and output is measurably up but the gains come at a high cost in spend, review load, and oversight.

The next step isn’t more agents, it’s a software factory: a measurable, improvable system in the cloud where agents work with increasing autonomy over time. Done right, a factory reduces the human touchpoints needed to ship software, lowers the cost per unit of software shipped, and improves the governance of how change reaches production.

The hard question is how to get there incrementally. In this virtual roundtable, Warp’s Zach Lloyd joins Adam Huda, Sr Engineering Manager at Uber and Chris Handel, Director of Product, AI Platform at Faire for a candid crawl → walk → run discussion: what each phase looks like in practice, which metrics matter at each stage, where teams get stuck, and what it takes culturally to move from individual agent use to work flowing through a factory.

Expect concrete examples, including Uber’s Agentic Teams Playbook, AI Champions program, and lessons on spend discipline as automation scales.