@warpdotdev

Open infrastructure for building cloud software factories

Joined June 2021
Introducing Scorers: Agents that grade your agents. Use LLM-as-a-judge to grade past coding agent sessions on: • Quality • Efficiency • Compliance • Or any custom dimension Scores feed into performance measurements and automatic self-improvement for software factories
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If an agent's PR doesn't have a screenshot verification, it's not worth reviewing. Add this to your PR requirements:
verification is the biggest bottleneck for coding agents right now according to @addyosmani. we @warpdotdev have put a lot of thought into building a good computer-use tool for Warp Factories. every agents gets a computer to navigate the apps they built, take screenshots and recordings, and post them back for human review. 3-4mins of activity get edited down to 15 clips stitched together with cursor clicks, mouse animations, and key presses. we've been able to dramatically cut our time to merge and unlocked faster iteration + review cycles, especially for projects that are hard to mock out locally!
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verification is the biggest bottleneck for coding agents right now according to @addyosmani. we @warpdotdev have put a lot of thought into building a good computer-use tool for Warp Factories. every agents gets a computer to navigate the apps they built, take screenshots and recordings, and post them back for human review. 3-4mins of activity get edited down to 15 clips stitched together with cursor clicks, mouse animations, and key presses. we've been able to dramatically cut our time to merge and unlocked faster iteration + review cycles, especially for projects that are hard to mock out locally!
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If you're setting up a software factory, use this configuration format:
Software factories should be configured as code. With Warp, your factory lives in a repo as markdown and YAML files, so your agents, automations, runners, benchmarks, and even custom model routers are all in one place. Here, I walk through a typical Warp factory config and show how it lays the foundation for self improvement! It's pretty awesome DX.
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We made a skill for assessing the risk of merging a PR: /merge-risk This addresses the code review bottleneck by helping devs trust the agent for lower risk changes. It grades risk across 5 categories: alignment, impact, verification, rollback cost, and error detection. - Alignment: does code follow the PR description and related tickets? - Impact: what is the blast radius, and does it touch sensitive code paths? - Verification: does the change include end-to-end verification? This means computer use, screen recordings, before/after screenshots... going beyond unit test coverage. - Rollback cost: once it's shipped, how trivial is it to revert? @mattpocockuk calls this a "two-way door" vs. a "one-way door." - Error detection: are errors reported, logged, or simply swallowed? Try it out: > npx skills add warpdotdev/common-skills --skill merge-risk
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The real reason for software factories? Bringing together all of your conversation data. Don't leave it locked away on your laptop.
We should stop keeping all of our agent conversations local. They should be stored in a shared place. This lets you do some powerful things: - Schedule self-improvement agents to review runs and pull out failure modes worth fixing - Replay past conversations against different models for benchmarking I met a team of devs zipping up Claude and Codex sessions from their computers and shipping them to a shared S3 bucket. That's... a start 😄 But really, all agent sessions should happen on a single source (like a cloud runner) so that conversation traces are stored together by default. It's why Warp Factories uses cloud sandboxes and makes sessions available via API. We also added an inbox view to see which conversations need your attention, which is quite convenient:
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Three months since adopting software factories, we’re at 40% more PRs merged and 67% lower cost per PR. We got there by measuring agent quality, benchmarking models, and using self-improvement loops to make our factory better. Here's how you can do this too in Warp Factories:
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Warp retweeted
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At @aiDotEngineer, I presented our skill called /skill-doctor. It's a skill to improve your agent skills. It aggregates your past agent sessions, grades their quality, and propose improvements to fix common failures.
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Great introduction to software factories if you've been wondering how they work
Here's my take on what a software factory really is This is my talk from @aiDotEngineer NYC, and I decided to record a version for everyone to watch on X. tl;dr - software engineering is becoming factory engineering, and there's new work (especially factory benchmarking) that engineers should start focusing on.
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Getting software factories working is going to be one of the more interesting software engineering challenges in the next few years. Software engineering is becoming factory engineering. Organizations that can make their factories robust, dependable, and self-improving will be able to ship more at better cost and have a competitive advantage.
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If you're interested in software factories, but you're not sure where to start, this is a good read:
Software factories can be a real culture shift. The biggest change for us was moving from individual agents on everyone's machines to one central agent setup (a factory) that we can build as a team. I wrote some learnings on how to navigate that.
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Until next time @aiDotEngineer!
We benchmarked some agent orchestration pipelines at @aiDotEngineer. Which would you pick?
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An interesting engineering challenge this next year will be closing the development loop we've started. We have small loops already (code review, automatic CI fixes, computer use verification), but we need to close the larger loop: let agents suggest what to build next.
I've been thinking about what a true, closed-loop software factory will look like. One where agents know what to fix, what costs to optimize, and the big one: what features to actually build. We're not there yet. But maybe we're getting close...
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Software factories can be a real culture shift. The biggest change for us was moving from individual agents on everyone's machines to one central agent setup (a factory) that we can build as a team. I wrote some learnings on how to navigate that.
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If you're building a software factory, this may be your north star:
I've been thinking about what a true, closed-loop software factory will look like. One where agents know what to fix, what costs to optimize, and the big one: what features to actually build. We're not there yet. But maybe we're getting close...
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If you're ready to build a software factory and you're looking for a starting point, here's three automations you can try 🧵
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3. Have agents suggest roadmap items from customer feedback. For example, you can use @GrainHQ to record transcripts on customer discovery calls, and have coding agents pull out insights. Here, an agent goes through prior customer interviews with a scheduled automation and looks for commonalities in where customers get stuck. From there, you can fully close the loop by connecting your taskboard via MCP to drive the next agent task. More on integrations: docs.warp.dev/factories/conn… 🔖
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