How Warp ships 2,000 PRs a month with AI factories | Zach Lloyd (CEO, Warp)
Zach Lloyd is the co-founder and CEO of Warp, an AI-powered terminal and software factory platform used by tens of thousands of engineers. Before Warp, he spent nearly a decade at Google, including time as a principal engineer on Google Sheets. He built Warp from the ground up as a modern, AI-native alternative to legacy terminals, and the team has since expanded into software factories: a full cloud-based system that takes an idea in Slack all the way through to a merged PR. In this episode: Why a software factory is more than a coding agent The public Slack → Linear → GitHub → QA workflow Human interactions per PR as a signal of automation and throughput Why human review is still the bottleneck Scoring agent runs, finding failure modes, and self-improving agent workflows Replaying real tasks to choose model cost and quality tradeoffs CEO workflows with Figma MCP, Granola, and research agents — Brought to you by: DX —Engineering intelligence for the AI era OpenArt —An all-in-one AI creation platform for images, videos, music, audio, and more — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Intro (02:35) Warp’s AI software factory, Wilson (09:23) Automatic factory trigger
