Factory's Matan Grinberg: The Coming ‘Dark Factory’ Where Software Builds Itself
Sequoia Capital
Jul 21, 2026
Matan Grinberg, CEO of Factory, argues that the future of software engineering lies in autonomous, asynchronous agents that operate like a 'dark factory'—running without constant human intervention. He emphasizes that enterprises must prioritize model-agnostic, modular systems to avoid vendor lock-in and shift from 'customer obsession' as an input metric to delivering high-performance, outcome-based software.
Key insight: Building a harness that supports multiple models actually yields better performance than training a single model to work with a proprietary harness, because it prevents the system from overfitting to the nuances of one specific model.
