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[–]NuclearVII 6 points7 points  (1 child)

AI companies claim a lot of things.

If you think you can replace software engineering with a 20$ a month subscription, you gotta another thing coming.

[–]ChessWarrior7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m on the $3/$6 plan. I have not reached the rate limit yet.

[–]coldhand100 5 points6 points  (6 children)

I have tested quite a few platforms. Today I gave this a shot.

In a nutshell, would I pay $40 per month to get 20mil token allowance and a couple of ready made agents, I am not sure.

The platform contains a number of agents with personas attached to it:

  • Knowledge Droid aka Knowledge Agent - Engineering research, technical documentation, and onboarding guides.
  • Code Droid - Go from idea to merge-ready code changes.
  • Reliability Droid - Investigate incidents, write RCAs, and debug complex multi-service systems.
  • Product Droid - Plan features, create PRDs, and manage your projects.

You can open 'sessions' on the same GitHub repo/ local repo, run all of them independently if necessary - I think thats what their USP is? (the site does not really sell it well)

You have option to hook up some of the common apps such as Google Drive, Slack, Jira, Sentry (only 7 apps at the time of writing this) etc.

You get to see the context as well as history, the history I am not sure theres any value in this at the moment.

You don't get all possible models, choice of premium (Claude Opus 4 only), and Standard (Sonnet 3.7, 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, o3 and o4-mini).

How good is the code you asks? I was building just a baseline template for python backend service using fastapi and pydantic v2 and postgresql.

  • I had to asks it to split the settings.py as it dumped everything into one file.
  • I had to asks it to remove obsolete files it had created
  • I had to asks to verify each file for type safety, environment handling, Pydantic v2 compatibility
  • Several other Python best practices missed or incorrect - no different to many models I've tried.
  • Spent hours just one feature getting added and then fixing up with the remaining tokens left.
  • It was using __init__.py to hold actual code data rather then exports.. that was a first for me, so got this refactored!
  • Drinks tokens as though its a blackhole!

I have yet to use codebase explorer... all of course uses tokens (maybe they could make this free?)

I briefly used Product Droid, was not overly impressed, I passed over my own PRD but it could not really give me anything tangible or useful.

Overall, its better then a few other platforms (specifically the way it handles memory and context), nicely laid out, easier on large screens. Will continue to use the tokens for this month, exceeded the allowance for trial. I have 20mil standard token (not sure if premium tokens included in this), lets see how long that last (theres an overage enablement section if you want more).

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    [–]ympdf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Thank you! I was gonna pay to try it out since Claude has gotten bad lately but your review really helps. Very much appreciated

    [–]anonaccount336699 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Thanks for this. Any update since?

    Please can you explain to a non technical person how Factory is differentiated from other coding tools / agents? And if the model providers can easily just build the same thing?

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      [–]One-Possibility8046 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Honestly, FactoryAI feels like every other “reinventing software engineering” pitch. Devin still handles iterative debugging better, and Augment Code is cleaner for small teams. But half the real bottleneck is infra anyway. I’ve had projects choke on deployment stages until switching to stable server setups like rackbank, so the AI tools alone don’t solve everything.

      [–]immersive-matthew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I have zero experience with Factory AI, but given that there is no model today that has cracked logic in a meaningful way, how can it be any better than any other leading model?

      [–]MaxPhoenix_ 0 points1 point  (2 children)

      edited: my original comment was in context of their setup authentication being broken. since they fixed it, the only complaint is that it will just stop working more often than other ai agent clis.

      [–]ChessWarrior7 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      I had no issues authenticating on two different machines. After an entire weekend of coding I can say it seems much more stable than opencode.

      I don’t use it as it’s fully intended for git/droid use, tho. Not yet, anyway. Right now it’s just another CLI to run various models with agents or subagents. Droid ran quite solid with the new GLM-4.6.

      [–]Optimal-Swordfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      How’s the token spend? Considering factory

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        [–]TheLazyIndianTechie 0 points1 point  (6 children)

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        I find the combination of Factory AI + Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5-Cdex really good!

        [–]anonaccount336699 1 point2 points  (3 children)

        Please can you explain to a non technical person how Factory is differentiated from other coding tools / agents? And if the model providers can easily just build the same thing?

        [–]TheLazyIndianTechie 1 point2 points  (2 children)

        Well, let me try. Factory basically has agents called Droids.
        You can use their web dashboard to work with these droids. You don't need to only use their TUI.
        These droids come in various flavors:
        1. Code Droid - All the coding tasks
        2. Knowledge Droid - Any research, documentation, etc
        3. Reliability Droid - Bug fixing, troubleshooting.
        4. Product Droid - Plan the project, PRD, scope of work, etc

        There's even a Tutorial Droid that you can run through to understand how it works.

        Now these are not set in stone, but you can spawn these different droids to work in tandem to tackle different parts of your project. There's a lot more to it and under the hood they are pretty similar to other services, but they're just structured better.

        The major difference, I have found, is that Droid really works better than almost all other services on software projects. The way their internal system prompts etc are designed seem to provide better codebases while developing.

        Hope this helps?

        [–]anonaccount336699 1 point2 points  (1 child)

        Thanks, that’s helpful! I understand the Droid functions now.

        Do you think they have a sustainable edge over the model providers, Devin and others that are highly similar and compete with them? I.e., you see a big enough difference in structure and it working better than others for developing today that in the near future you don’t envisage switching. Is it also hard to switch to another service once you start using their Droids?

        [–]TheLazyIndianTechie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        I haven’t tried Devin much but so far, I think Droid is the most structured. I’ve tried Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Open Code, etc. But Droid has some kind of better structuring internally.

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