Warp CEO Zach Lloyd on why software factories are the next phase of coding

At AI Engineer World’s Fair, Warp CEO Zach Lloyd argued coding is shifting from interactive agent use to fully automated development loops. He calls this a 'software factory'—agents continuously triage, implement, review, verify, ship, and monitor changes. Warp’s new platform Oz lets teams set up such factories, plugging into Jira, Slack, and GitHub, with configurable human checkpoints. Lloyd expects most major projects to adopt some form of automated factory within a year. Warp open-sourced its terminal tool in April and is now pivoting hard toward agent orchestration.

Why it matters: Warp CEO talk at AI Engineer World's Fair, proposing 'software factory' with concrete Oz product. HKR all hit. But this is a single talk recap, not a product launch, and Latent Space is a secondary source — so capped at 72, the featured threshold, no higher.