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. Listen or watch on YouTube , Spotify , or Apple Podcasts 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 y