Your AI Agents Shouldn't Care Where They Run - Nikhil Harithas, Factory

Factory's Nikhil Harithas explains how Droid, their coding agent, was rebuilt to run on any compute inside a customer's own cloud. The talk covers the Open Compute abstraction, the compute gateway and outbound-only relay design, bring-your-own-key model calls, snapshots and forking for agent swarms, and the operational hard parts of managing compute for long-running agents in regulated enterprises.