building-with-ai-agents

1# Building With AI Agents
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3Transition from writing lines of code to directing a parallel team of autonomous agents.
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5Help the user with building with ai agents using insights from 15 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.
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7## How to Help
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91. **Identify Tasks** - Use the Junior Intern framework to find repetitive or well-defined engineering tasks suitable for delegation.
102. **Define Instructions** - Draft precise, granular prompts and provide context through markdown files and past examples.
113. **Manage Parallel Threads** - Direct multiple agents simultaneously across different pull requests or features to scale output.
124. **Review and Iterate** - Maintain oversight by reviewing code logic and using AI-led peer reviews to ensure quality before deployment.
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14## Core Principles
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16### The Directorial Shift
17Boris 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."
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19Stop manual code editing and transition to directing multiple AI agents simultaneously across different pull requests to maximize productivity.
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21### Absolute Specificity
22Lazar Jovanovic: "AI just don't understand what do you mean when you say, 'You know what I mean?' So you need to be specific. I'm optimizing 100% of my time today on good judgment, clarity, quality, taste."
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