The Infrastructure Factory: Agents write the code. Who builds the place it runs?

Everyone is building software factories: agents triage, implement, verify and ship. But every one of those changes still needs an environment to run in, and far too often that environment still starts with a ticket. Code got cheap, environments did not. This talk introduces the Infrastructure Factory: a platform that turns intents from humans or agents into compliant, owned, observable and cost-attributed environments, with no ticket in the path. We look at why recent software factory talks call infrastructure the hardest part without treating it as a factory itself, how it relates to AI factories, and what the design looks like with an MCP server as the front door and agentgateway as the policy gate.