Agent-native software development startup Factory announced has raised $50 million in new funding and also fully released Droids, advanced agents designed to accelerate the shift toward agent-native development. While other AI coding platforms tie developers to a single integrated development environment, model or interface, Droids meet engineers where they already work, making adoption easier and more flexible. The Droids are LLM-agnostic and interface-agnostic, allowing developers to work from the terminal, IDE, Slack, Linear and browsers, or through custom scripts. The flexibility allows developers to adopt agents without rewriting workflows or abandoning existing tools. The system ingests organizational context and engineering tool data, including version control, issue trackers and incident systems, so that agents onboard like seasoned engineers and make consistent, context-aware decisions. The agents integrate with organizational tools like GitHub, Jira, Slack, Datadog and Google Drive and build a “mental model” of the codebase similar to a seasoned engineer. Droids also go beyond autocomplete to perform complex tasks such as feature development, refactoring, code review, documentation, incident response and codebase Q&A. Chief Executive Matan Grinberg added that “agents will not replace developers, but developers who are fluent with agents will rapidly outleverage and outpace developers who are not.” Factory already has an impressive lineup of customers, including Ernst & Young Global Ltd., Nvidia Corp., MongoDB Inc., Zapier Inc., Bayer AG and Clari Inc. Those customers are said by Factory to be seeing 31 times faster feature delivery, 96% shorter migration times, a 96% reduction in on-call resolution times, higher-quality code and more time for developers to focus on design and architecture.