Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering — Zach Lloyd, Warp
Summary
Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp and a former principal engineer who led engineering on Google Docs, is still shipping all the time, but hasn't written a line of code in six months. His thesis: sof
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[music] Okay. Hello everyone. Uh, I'm excited to be here. Uh, my name is Zach Lloyd. Um, today I'm going to be talking about self-improving software factories, the new open-source model, and basically what I think is happening to development. A little bit about me just to begin. So I am a former uh principal engineer from Google. Used to lead engineering on the Google Doc Suite. I've been an engineer now for over 20 years. Long time. I am still uh shipping frequently, but I haven't written a line of code in the last six months. Uh and I'm the founder of a company called Warp. Uh Warp, if you're not familiar, is a open-source agentic development environment. Uh you may know us as a terminal. That is how the company started. We're basically a terminal that has agents built in. Uh we open sou…
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