Ep 34: Q&A with Eno Reyes, Factory: AI agents are shipping your code. Who's checking their work?

On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, Pete Soderling sits down with Eno Reyes, Co-founder & CTO of Factory — a software development agent platform that has run missions lasting 14 days straight, with hundreds of agents executing continuously.

In this conversation Pete covers:

• Can you scale AI coding agents without things quietly breaking?
• Is there an equivalent of a PR for specs?
• What does developer trust actually require?
• What will happen to the product manager role?
• How does the quality story change for data pipelines and infrastructure, where failure modes can be silent?

Eno answers all of it from the ground up and shares a few takes:

• Agent readiness is as much a process investment as a tooling one
• The spec matters, but only as a starting point
• Winning developer trust is a UX problem as much as a technical one
• The PM role isn't dying — it's unbundling
• Data infrastructure is where most teams will get caught off guard first

If you're building with agents and want a practical, ground-level view of what quality and trust look like at scale — this one's worth your time.

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