Factory acquires HumanLayer, bringing its multiplayer coding agent IDE in-house
annbordetsky · x · 2026-11-05
HumanLayer founder dexhorthy announced the company is joining Factory. HumanLayer is a multiplayer coding agent IDE and cloud for running agents locally or in the background. Factory welcomed founders dexhorthy and 0xblacklight, saying they'll build the future of software factories for engineering teams; a detailed post covers what happens to customers and the HumanLayer OSS project.
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