Grinberg: AI Coding Agents Need Full Workplace Context, Not Just IDEs
Matan Grinberg · The AI Coding Factory · May 29, 2025 · at 17:38
Matan Grinberg, co-founder of Factory AI, discusses the architecture required for autonomous coding droids during a live product demo.
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“Everyone expects these you know, agentic systems to perform at the level of a human, right? Because that's what they're always going to compare them to. But in a lot of cases, they'll have these agents just in the IDE. And that's like the equivalent of onboarding a human engineer, just like throwing them into your code base and being like, all right, like go. But like the reality is when you onboard a human engineer, what do you actually onboard them to? Slack, Notion, linear, like Datadog, Sentry, PagerDude. They have all of these other information sources that they need to actually be a productive engineer.”
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