The Hard Part of Coding isn’t the Code
The hard part of coding isn’t the code, it’s everything else. The hard part is spending months trying to find all the hidden dependencies and broken APIs and mismatched versions. The hard part is the understanding, planning, negotiating, re-prioritizing, and documenting. Enterprise software development is hard because combing through the labyrinth of outdated docs and tech debt is like trying to untangle all the rivers of the world once they’ve already flowed into the ocean. The hard part isn’t the code, it’s all the rest.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” —Henry Ford.
The last two years have brought remarkable advances in AI coding tools, dramatically improving how developers write and review code. However, the greatest opportunities for AI in enterprise software development extend far beyond code generation. As foundation models become more capable and agentic, organizations with fragmented information, disorganized planning, and siloed developers will fall behind those who adapt. To win in the AI era, you must transform your team into an AI-first engineering org. And this means transforming all aspects of enterprise software development, not just writing code.
The software of the future will be built by humans and AI, together, in one platform. That platform is Factory.
FACTORY
Introducing Factory - the Command Center for Software Development. Our enterprise platform combines advanced engineering system indexing, state-of-the-art retrieval and search, and access to reliable agentic systems powered by frontier LLMs. The result is rapid acceleration of your engineering velocity across every stage in your software development lifecycle.
Droid Mode: Collaborate With Reliable Agentic Systems
Traditional IDEs were built for humans writing code line by line. True human-AI collaboration requires an entirely new paradigm. To be productive in the enterprise setting, agentic AI needs to operate continuously, reason about entire systems, and execute complex, long-running tasks — not just assist in isolated prompts.
Factory’s Droid Mode makes this possible, giving developers a command center where they can delegate complex, multi-step tasks and monitor as they get executed, with the ability the jump in and guide the AI at any step. Accelerate your higher-leverage tasks while you automate repetitive work like integrations, bug-fixing, PRD creation, release notes, version updates, and more.
Threads: Unified and Dynamic Context
Today, your architecture lives in Notion, tasks in Linear, discussions in Slack, and code across different repositories. This creates a fragmented and disconnected knowledge base. Factory’s Threads eliminate these silos by continuously tracking and linking discussions, code, and documents into a unified, shared context. Each Thread is a jumping-off point for deep work with agentic AI that already understands your context.
Workflows: Standardize and Automate Repetitive Tasks
Organizations have always struggled to standardize development practices. Contributing guides and best practices are meticulous crafted and distributed, but quickly forgotten and skipped over. With AI tools generating more and more code unchecked, this challenge is only growing. When developers use AI in their own silos, opportunities for consistency are lost. Factory turns this problem into an advantage with Workflows — allowing teams to capture complex development patterns, from architecture reviews to deployments, and transform them into executable, AI-powered processes. By unifying context and automating best practices, Factory ensures knowledge isn’t just documented — it’s deployed, shared, and scaled across the organization.
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