Why did I join Prefactor by Josh Gillies

Why does anyone do anything? One thing I know about myself is that I’ve always followed intuition, and when I first sat down with our founder to discuss what they were building, Prefactor had my attention. But that’s not a satisfying answer to the question. At least not one that makes much of a blog post. So here I am two months into my Prefactor journey and multiple nudges from our founder “wen blog post”. So I guess it’s story time:

Looking back, it’s 2022, and I’m in the Midjourney Discord, completely in awe as I watch hundreds of images scrolling right before my eyes. Generated from nothing more than a user message, and bucket loads of GPU compute. To prove to myself that this wasn’t some fever dream I had a go… The results were mixed, but here’s one I saved, it’s a corgi riding a surfboard.

Soon after GPT 3.5 launched, and suddenly ChatGPT was a thing, a tool which quickly became instrumental to my day to day. It was my writing assistant, my coding co-pilot, anything that was text in text out. I even tasked it with being the DM in an RPG campaign. Again the results were mixed, but as a software person, I both saw the flaws, and the potential.

Fast forward to 2025, and it’s beyond obvious. This stuff isn’t going anywhere, and in no way is it slowing down.

This was the year I leant in. Ignoring the major players for a moment to shine some light on SourceGraph who with their Cody product had just released Amp (long live Cody!), and I immediately knew this was the tipping point. Amp was more than just a toy for generating convincing code snippets, it could build entire apps, and from nothing more than an empty directory and a prompt. Completely autonomously, and without human interaction if you dared to do away with the safety nets and the nagging.

The company I was with at the time adopted Amp internally, and suddenly members of the company outside of the Software Engineering team were building features in our main codebase, and getting them across the line into production. It wasn’t without its organizational quirks but the realization was this:

My career as a software engineer was completely turned on its head.

Software is an enabler, and here in 2026 as Agents go from simple scripts, to members of the organization. Role based access control, observability, auditability, are all table stakes for this new class of co-worker.

Prefactor through its history in IdP, to MCP auth, is positioned to be the platform for anyone wanting to take their Agents to the next level, to confidently go from POC to Production.

So there you have it, a trip down memory lane, and a justification for why my intuition led to Prefactor.

If you’re interested in learning more about how we can help get your Agents into production, reach out to hello@prefactor.tech