Agent skill · product strategy · refoundai
building-with-ai-agents
Help users master the transition from manual coding to managing AI-driven development workflows by focusing on high-level direction, parallel tasking, and rigorous automated review.
Why this skill is useful
Provides frameworks and templates for orchestrating multiple AI agents in software development workflows that the AI wouldn't generate on its own.
What it needs
About 4k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-16. 1,223 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
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. Absolute Specificity Lazar 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." Abandon the assumption that the tool understands your implicit intent and provide granular instructions as if you are talking to a technical co-founder. High-Level Reasoning and Orchestration Marc Andreessen: "Over the holiday break, it feels like the AI coding thing really hit critical mass and the world's best programmers, including Linus Torvalds, for the first time over the holiday break basically said, 'Yeah, AI is now coding better than we can.'" Transform your role from manual execution to reasoning and orchestration, using AI to achieve 10x the output of a standard programmer. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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