No. 016 · Coding toolStamped 31 Oct 2026
Day 7 receipt
Droid 1.0
Day 2 of 7Factory's agent harness update with programmatic tool calling on by default.
Launch dayWhat they claimed, quoted word for word · 3
“Introducing Droid 1.0: the new engine behind Factory’s agent. Built for complex projects and everyday development: more accurate, more efficient, faster than ever before”
Benchmarks are vendor-run only. One minor user bug is open; no first-hand speed or accuracy reports yet.
“On the same tasks, Droid outperforms the native harnesses built for their models up to 20% more efficiently.”
Factory-run Terminal-Bench comparison; no independent reproduction found in launch coverage.
“Droid took 124 ms from Enter to send the request: 97 ms to gather context and 27 ms to build it.”
Vendor-measured latency; no user timing reports yet.
Day 7What real users report · 1
R1GitHub30 Oct 2026problem
A user reports the setting that should stop Droid adding a co-author line to commits is ignored, and the line is still added.
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