The current SW toolchain / AI coding industry is seeing so much frothy behavior... Every toolmaker seemingly is raising $$$M at $$$Bn valuation. And they all seem to sell to largely the same pool of developers.
Reeks of self-driving startups getting funded out of every garage, about a decade ago.
Expecting to see consolidation / acquihiring / and straight-up running-outta-money in 3..2..1 years
I think they're trying to address your concern by pointing out how their Droids are different
>Every AI coding platform forces you to choose: one IDE, one LLM, one agent, one interface. Subscribing and unsubscribing from plans to try and stay at the cutting edge is now obsolete. Developers deserve a choice. Factory is giving choice back to developers. Droids work with any LLM, in any IDE, in local or remote, and in any interface. You can delegate tasks to Droids from your Terminal, your IDE, Slack, Linear, or on the web. For further customization, you can use headless mode to set up scripts or triggers to run Droids tailored to your team's workflow.
The Factory.ai Droid does rank well in the terminal-bench leaderboard (currently 3 of the top 5)
Yep. I don’t see how this is sustainable. The people with the most capital will win. And increasingly, it looks like that’ll be the actual foundational model owners. OpenAI could presumably replicate everything this company is doing. How can they actually differentiate themselves?
As someone who is deeply involved in this space, I fail to understand what the product does. This is genuine feedback. I signed up but not sure what I am looking at.
The current SW toolchain / AI coding industry is seeing so much frothy behavior... Every toolmaker seemingly is raising $$$M at $$$Bn valuation. And they all seem to sell to largely the same pool of developers.
Reeks of self-driving startups getting funded out of every garage, about a decade ago.
Expecting to see consolidation / acquihiring / and straight-up running-outta-money in 3..2..1 years
I think they're trying to address your concern by pointing out how their Droids are different
>Every AI coding platform forces you to choose: one IDE, one LLM, one agent, one interface. Subscribing and unsubscribing from plans to try and stay at the cutting edge is now obsolete. Developers deserve a choice. Factory is giving choice back to developers. Droids work with any LLM, in any IDE, in local or remote, and in any interface. You can delegate tasks to Droids from your Terminal, your IDE, Slack, Linear, or on the web. For further customization, you can use headless mode to set up scripts or triggers to run Droids tailored to your team's workflow.
The Factory.ai Droid does rank well in the terminal-bench leaderboard (currently 3 of the top 5)
Yep. I don’t see how this is sustainable. The people with the most capital will win. And increasingly, it looks like that’ll be the actual foundational model owners. OpenAI could presumably replicate everything this company is doing. How can they actually differentiate themselves?
I can wait to see what the next bublle HN wants to sell me!
What's the problem with that? Seems like a good thing to have people spraying money at engineers to try to find something that works.
As someone who is deeply involved in this space, I fail to understand what the product does. This is genuine feedback. I signed up but not sure what I am looking at.
Might just burst soon... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37aUuoRyMhM
voiceover on that video sounded like it was ai generated lool
A tale as old as time, startup CEO's and self-indulgent announcement videos with no adherence to norms of storytelling technique or pacing.