Self-Improving software factories: The new open source model"

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Zach Lloyd’s Main Stage session sits squarely in the Software Factories track: it is about moving from single coding agents toward orchestrated systems where multiple agents can delegate work, pass messages, and run in isolated local or cloud environments. The talk frames Warp’s Oz platform as a model-agnostic approach to agent orchestration, designed to work across harnesses such as claude and codex rather than locking teams into one model or one terminal workflow. Because Lloyd leads Warp, an Agentic Development Environment company rooted in the terminal, the session connects practical developer UX with deeper infrastructure concerns: sandboxing, Docker containerization, serverless execution, and coordination primitives for larger AI-native software workflows.

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Alt titles: Agent orchestration with message passing / Agent orchestration for every model / Warp’s

approach to agent orchestration With models getting more capable, we’ve quickly scaled from single

agent problems to multi-agent problems – How can agents delegate tasks to accomplish ever-larger

goals? You may have heard of “agent swarms” or “agent teams” in this arena, but they come with

drawbacks: model lock-in, complex UX, or both. We want to share how we’ve tackled orchestration with

our model-agnostic platform, Oz. Our approach has some unique goals: - Support any model, and any

harness (claude, codex, etc) - Delegate across local instances and across isolated cloud

sandboxes - Provide a UX that requires zero tmux or TUI knowledge to use We’ll explore how we

implemented message passing across harnesses, how we handle agent sandboxing with Docker

containerization + serverless deploys, and how we designed these primitives to make a system that

works with any agent. You’ll walk away with a clear outline of how to build agent orchestration

well. Plus, we invite you to try our Oz orchestration platform and tell us what you think. Talk

format: Primarily a tech demo and code walkthrough. We’ll show multiple examples of tasks that are

best served by delegation, and show both local and cloud-based runs. We’ll also walk through the

design of our message passing implementation at a high level to show how it works.

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