[HN Gopher] Factory Raises $50M Series B
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       Factory Raises $50M Series B
        
       Author : ashvardanian
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2025-09-25 20:53 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | aanet wrote:
       | 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
        
         | SilverElfin wrote:
         | 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?
        
         | lomase wrote:
         | I can wait to see what the next bublle HN wants to sell me!
        
         | leakycap wrote:
         | 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)
        
       | popalchemist wrote:
       | A tale as old as time, startup CEO's and self-indulgent
       | announcement videos with no adherence to norms of storytelling
       | technique or pacing.
        
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