Factory's 'Droid' AI Aims to Automate Coding Tasks, Improve Developer Productivity
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Developer velocity is often slowed by lengthy processes like code review and documentation. Factory's "Droids" aim to automate these repetitive tasks.
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Factory's Droids handle tasks like code review, documentation, testing, and even generating new code. The goal is to improve engineering productivity.
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The "Droid core" ingests data to build knowledge and insights to solve engineering problems. It also filters third-party AI models.
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Factory acknowledges limitations in training its own models initially but aims to differentiate through customer data over time.
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Factory has worked with 15 companies so far to author code reviews and hundreds of thousands of lines of code. It recently raised $5M in seed funding.
