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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.
Passed 22 of 25 test cases with the skill, and 15 of 25 without it.
and 10 more in the full report
10 fixed12 passed either way0 still failing3 broke
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One of 10 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
Our team wants to shift from writing code manually to running multiple autonomous AI coding agents in parallel. Can you create a practical advisory guide that details how to identify the right tasks to delegate, set up detailed project context, coordinate asynchronous threads across branches, and ensure quality control without editing lines by hand?
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Recommends using the Junior Intern framework to select delegateable tasks. | Missed | Passed |
| Advises using Markdown files to maintain persistent dynamic project context. | Passed | Passed |
| Suggests multi-model peer review where different AI models review code across pull requests. | Missed | Passed |
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scott Wu: "Our whole team is only like 15 engineers a year. We use a ton of Devin when we're building Devin. Most folks on the team are definitely working with up to five Devins at once, and so Devin merges like several hundred pull requests into production in the Devin code bases every month."
Move from synchronous single-tasking to coordinating a parallel team by assigning distinct tasks to multiple agent instances at once.
Sherwin Wu V2: "There's a team that's actually doing an experiment right now within OpenAI where they are maintaining a 100% Codex-written code base. They run into the exact problems that you're describing. And so usually you're like, 'All right, I'll roll up my sleeves and figure it out.' This team doesn't have that escape hatch."
Resist the urge to manually fix code when agents struggle; instead, commit to mastering the model steering required to solve issues through AI alone.
test cases passed, vs 15 / 25 without
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