Building With AI Agents

Transition from writing lines of code to directing a parallel team of autonomous agents.

Help the user with building with ai agents using insights from 15 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

How to Help

1. Identify Tasks - Use the Junior Intern framework to find repetitive or well-defined engineering tasks suitable for delegation.
2. Define Instructions - Draft precise, granular prompts and provide context through markdown files and past examples.
3. Manage Parallel Threads - Direct multiple agents simultaneously across different pull requests or features to scale output.
4. Review and Iterate - Maintain oversight by reviewing code logic and using AI-led peer reviews to ensure quality before deployment.

Core Principles

The Directorial Shift

Boris Cherny: "100% of my code is written by Claude Code. I have not edited a single line by hand since November. Every day, I ship 10, 20, 30 pull requests. So, at the moment I have, like, five agents running."

Stop manual code editing and transition to directing multiple AI agents simultaneously across different pull requests to maximize productivity.