Warp CEO Zach Lloyd: tuning agents cut cost per PR from $80 to $15-20 in its software factory
Latent Space · youtube · 2026-11-04
Latent Space interviews Warp founder/CEO Zach Lloyd on the "software factory" his team built to turn tasks into pull requests, measure agent quality, and let agents improve the workflow itself.
Key points:
- Full demo of a Slack request flowing to a PR
- Shared agent traces score cost, throughput and quality; benchmarks built from real engineering work
- Tuning models and subagent use cut Warp's internal cost from $80 to $15-20 per PR with higher throughput
- Discussion of defining the factory in code, what belongs in a benchmark, and the split between product engineers and factory engineers
- Links to Lloyd's talk "Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering" and Suraj Gupta's self-improving agent factories talk
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