Tereza Tížková

Tereza Tížková’s 2026 AI Engineer conference biography describes her work in growth at Factory, an AI-native software development platform whose autonomous coding agents, called Droids, help engineering teams ship across the development lifecycle. Before Factory, she worked on growth as the first hire at E2B, which provides open-source sandboxed virtual machines powering AI products. Outside work, she enjoys blogging, testing new products and talking to developers.

In her presentation on software factories, Tížková describes an autonomous lifecycle encompassing user feedback and logs, prioritization, execution, validation and continuous improvement. She explains Factory’s automatic model routing, which classifies task difficulty and selects the cheapest model predicted to meet the required capability threshold. She also presents Factory Missions: an orchestrator establishes completion criteria, sequential workers hand off work with fresh context, and independent validators assess code against a contract written before implementation. These checks include an agent that clicks through an application on a virtual computer. Her discussion of continuous learning covers deferred context that loads full tool details only when needed, agent-readiness checks for reproducible environments, tests and documentation, and plugins that package reusable skills and team knowledge. She argues that humans should focus on deciding what software to build while agents handle implementation and routine coordination.