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AI debate with Factorial engineers | itnig discussion

2026-04-03 · 6 company · 6 thematic
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Staff engineer at Factorial who hasn't written code directly in months, focusing on system-level thinking and architecture. Built an orchestrator to understand agent decision-making. Views himself as a bottleneck for PR reviews.

miguel

Engineering lead at Factorial driving the company's AI-native transformation. Led the cultural shift to zero-code experiments, standardization of AI tooling, and adoption of auto-research agents. Strong views on Software 2.0 transition and model provider economics.

adria

Factorial engineer building custom dashboards using Jira as a data backend only. Experiments with Talis hardware and auto-research agents. Skeptical of pure prompt-based software due to cost, favors hybrid deterministic + LLM approach.

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“Tienes pencil, que ahora es gratis, a ver cuánto tiempo es gratis, ¿sabes? Pensil. Pencil es para diseñar con agentes, saca cursores y empieza a tirar componentes en pantalla con varios cursores, ¿sabes? Y te hace el diseño del app y es op…”
—miguel

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