Francesca LaBianca (@francesca

Francesca LaBianca

556 posts

Francesca LaBianca

@francesca_lab

Building @FactoryAI

San Francisco, CA

Joined February 2022

Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Oct 1, 2025
Try Droid with Sonnet 4.5 today to get Opus 4.1-like quality for 1/5th the cost. Link below for 40M free tokens to get started
Abhay Singhal
@_AbhaySinghal
Oct 1, 2025
Droid + Sonnet 4.5 is essentially at parity with Droid + Opus 4.1, but 5x cheaper. @FactoryAI’s Droid, powered by the latest Sonnet model, has achieved a leading Terminal-Bench score of 57.5%.
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Sep 30, 2025
At @FactoryAI, we believe that AI won’t replace you — but humans who use AI best will. To celebrate the launch of the Factory CLI, we placed mirrors around SF to show who the world’s best software engineer really is: you.
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Oct 2, 2025
If this looks like you, let us know if you’d like early access to the Max plan
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Oct 3, 2025
Our most requested feature from launch is here. Introducing the @FactoryAI Max Plan. $200 / mo for 200M Standard Tokens. Standard Tokens can be used across all models: Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5-Codex, Opus 4.1 and more. If this looks like you, upgrade to the Max plan in settings
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Oct 23, 2025
We're hiring for our Business Operations team at @FactoryAI to support our rapid growth. You'll work across finance, growth, operations, business development, and partnerships -- owning 0-1 projects that directly impact our highest priority strategic initiatives. We move fast,
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Oct 8, 2025
We're hosting an event at @FactoryAI HQ tomorrow night for power users! Come meet the team, preview upcoming features, share your feedback, and receive some limited edition swag. Fellow Max Plan users particularly encouraged to join! Space is limited - sign up link below.
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Feb 26, 2025
Excited to share what we have been working on at Factory - a platform that unifies your dev tools and empowers engineers to collaborate alongside AI agents for complex tasks. Factory is built for engineers, but it is also uniquely powerful for interrelated functions across your
Factory
@FactoryAI
Feb 25, 2025
INTRODUCING FACTORY Factory is the Command Center where developers and agentic AI collaborate to understand, plan, and build enterprise software. Our enterprise platform combines advanced engineering system indexing, state-of-the-art retrieval and search, and reliable agentic
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Factory: The Command Center for Software Development | Factory.ai
From factory.ai
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Oct 2, 2025
Paying for a code review tool? Build one yourself in minutes.
Varin Nair
@varinnair
Oct 2, 2025
We set up a GitHub Workflow for PR reviews using droid exec (@FactoryAI’s headless CLI). It's already blocked real bugs from merging into prod. Workflow code in thread below.
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Sep 7, 2025
T-1 hour until we hear the results from the Man v Machine hackathon. Many participants showed intense emotion this morning upon receiving the news on whether they’re allowed AI coding tools or not. 2 teams auto quit, but many persisted… “Man I’m loving being back in my flow
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Aug 7, 2025
Excited to announce GPT-5 is now available in @FactoryAI. We've been working in close collaboration with @OpenAI over the past few weeks to ensure GPT-5 fits seamlessly into Factory. GPT-5 follows instructions, asks sharp clarifying questions, and grounds its responses with
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Sep 26, 2025
I joined @FactoryAI nearly 15 months ago because of the vision that the future of software engineering belongs to everyone. When agents make code accessible, anyone can be technical. The best coding agents become the best knowledge-work agents because everything is just an
Factory
@FactoryAI
Sep 25, 2025
The best agents for software development are becoming the best agents for everything. Droids are the best software development agents in the world, reaching #1 on Terminal-Bench. We have raised $50M from NEA, Sequoia Capital, J.P. Morgan, Nvidia, Abstract Ventures, and other
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Oct 14, 2025
Latest release!
Factory
@FactoryAI
Oct 14, 2025
Factory 1.8 is here. And with it come new ways to automate and delegate software development with your Droids. Now in your favorite tools like Linear, Slack, and Sentry.
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Oct 8, 2025
GLM 4.6 and all open-source models now available in the Factory CLI. You can get started with hosting on one of our launch partners @baseten, @FireworksAI_HQ, @openrouter, @ollama, @huggingface and @DeepInfra. Free credits to @baseten linked below.
Factory
@FactoryAI
Oct 7, 2025
Starting today, you can use any open-source model to power your Droids. Droids achieve the highest scores across all open-source models on Terminal-Bench. We find GLM 4.6 to be the most performant, remarkably achieving a score in Droid that beats Sonnet 4 in Claude Code.
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab
Sep 18, 2025
The ability to explain technology in a compelling way is both scare and immensely valuable. We’re honored to have one of the very best joining us to do just that. @bentossell has a rare gift for making complex technology clear, compelling, and human. It's why hundreds of
Ben Tossell
@bentossell
Sep 18, 2025
📣 Some news I’m excited to join @FactoryAI as Head of Dev Rel I shared the full story in bens bites this morning. Tldr; - Started in tech working at Product Hunt (2015) - Built stuff with no-code tools - No one signed up for any ‘startup’ I launched - Started Makerpad - a
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