The AI factory playbook for engineering teams
Zach Lloyd, CEO of Warp, walks through how engineering teams can build an AI software factory that automates the full development lifecycle, not just code generation.
The gist
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Move work into shared Slack or Linear channels so the whole team can see progress and learn from expert users.
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Track human interactions per PR across all tools to measure how much effort each pull request actually takes.
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Use agents to score every run, spot failure patterns, and propose updates so the factory improves itself over time.
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A technical founder can use Figma MCP to redesign slides and Granola MCP to review sales calls without hiring ops staff.
"The way we think of factories is you can say in a public Slack channel you can tag — we named our factory Wilson — you can tag Wilson and be like, okay, I want you to build something for us. Most work is starting in a public place."
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See all on the Slack page"We use Linear in addition to using Slack so that everything gets tracked. So the factory integrates not just with Slack, it opens an issue."
▶ Play at 6:1120 creators recommend it, including JD Ross, Chintan Turakhia, and Claire Vo.
See all on the Linear page"If I need to change a slide deck, I do it through the Figma MCP and the coding agent. This would also work in Claude Code or Codex — anything that has Figma MCP."
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See all on the Figma MCP page"This is how we do our slide decks for instance. We are using Figma slides. You can make things that look very nice. So one thing that I do now is like if I need to change a slide deck, I do it through the Figma MCP and the coding agent."
▶ Play at 32:3531 creators recommend it, including Ali Abdaal, Claire Vo, and Jordi Hays.
See all on the Figma page"I'm a big Granola user as well. And so again, if I were really trying to improve this sales deck, another thing that I would want to make sure is that the sales deck is speaking to the things that customers are actually talking about. I'm going to start a second task here usin..."
▶ Play at 35:4515 creators recommend it, including Peter Yang, Adam Ward, and Daniel Blum.
See all on the Granola pageWhat they recommend · 6 picks
"If I need to change a slide deck, I do it through the Figma MCP and the coding agent. This would also work in Claude Code or Codex — anything that has Figma MCP."
"I'm using Grok a lot recently. I think Grok is pretty good from like a cost and speed and quality trade-off."
"The way we think of factories is you can say in a public Slack channel you can tag — we named our factory Wilson — you can tag Wilson and be like, okay, I want you to build some..."
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