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It's Not How Much AI, It's How Well: A Practical Spectrum for Advanced AI Use

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How to use Claude Code subagents to parallelize development

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I built a production app in a week by managing a swarm of 20 AI agents

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zachwills
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Thank you! Appreciate that.
zachwills
·10 mesi fa·discuss
I think it's both and. Role based works well in some cases. Task based well in others. It's a false choice to think you have to pick one or the other all the time.
zachwills
·10 mesi fa·discuss
We are using this sort of workflow in real world applications at work in brownfield codebases. It is working well!
zachwills
·10 mesi fa·discuss
This is where prompting comes in. You need to remember to tell it about which libs you want or encourage it to web search to find the latest ones, or use something like context7 MCP to get the latest versions.
zachwills
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Yea, whoever / whatever cracks the nut on the standardized way to work in this new env is going to win big.
zachwills
·10 mesi fa·discuss
I think that is the whole point. The new limiting factor is going to be our own ability to multitask effectively. It will be a new skill to hone.
zachwills
·10 mesi fa·discuss
No, but I will check it out.
zachwills
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Hey -- sorry was out of town so didn't see this! It could definitely work without Linear. You'd need to modify the command for the linear stuff to just write to MD files and make sure you pass those through to the other agents.
zachwills
·10 mesi fa·discuss
I've been thinking about this a lot lately!
zachwills
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Follow up from my last post; lots were asking for more examples. I will be around if anybody has questions this morning.
zachwills
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Semantics I think. There are production ready alpha releases, and totally unsecured prototype or WIP versions of software.
zachwills
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Got it. Will keep that in mind in the future; thank you!
zachwills
·11 mesi fa·discuss
I think I will build something open source or shareable to get around this. I understand now folks really want to / need to see the thing to get the most out of the learnings I share.
zachwills
·11 mesi fa·discuss
I actually still listen to music heavily when in the zone with AI coding. Totally agree that the focus time feels much more intense now than it did before AI.
zachwills
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Yea, that's a good point. Some of the wording is prob too sensational.. esp. for Hacker News. Will keep that in mind!
zachwills
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Meh, maybe if I was selling something. I have nothing to sell. Just sharing my thoughts from going heads-down for a week and trying a new workflow.
zachwills
·11 mesi fa·discuss
How is it a trick to have AI organize my thoughts? It's all an accurate recount of my learnings and my experience doing what I said I did in the post. What trick is there?
zachwills
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Haha, I know what you mean. I just believe in being civil. Some of the comments on here are just rude; so I am grateful when people are constructive or generally active in the discussion vs. random hate or bashing.
zachwills
·11 mesi fa·discuss
I'd consider that part of the business goals, personally. I also think over time we will end up with more people doing what I talked about in the post, so the code that gets generated by those workflows will become the norm and will impact long-term direction/vision.

FWIW, the vision and direction can and should still be dictated by the human engineer. That's what engineers will be doing IMO vs. coding.
zachwills
·11 mesi fa·discuss
No. That would be too much effort, honestly. Comments are less "polished" and formal IMO.