Factory acquires HumanLayer to build self-improving software for engineering teams
annbordetsky · x · 2026-11-05
Factory announced the acquisition of HumanLayer, with founders dexhorthy and 0xblacklight joining the team. HumanLayer is a multiplayer coding agent IDE and cloud for running agents locally or in the background. Factory says the combined team will build software factories for entire engineering teams, aiming at self-improving software.
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