Ex-Meta Engineer Ships 40 PRs Daily
Ex-Meta principal engineer Kun Chen shares his workflow for agentic engineering on Peter Yang's Behind the Craft podcast, outlining how he uses AI agents to automate code planning, writing, and validation. He details how orchestrating 20 to 30 agents in parallel allows him to ship up to 40 pull requests per day, and discusses open-source tools he built to facilitate visual planning, agent management, and runtime error prevention.
Elite software engineers are rapidly transitioning from writing code to orchestrating concurrent AI agents, showing that the bottleneck is no longer code generation but workflow management and validation.
* Parallel agent execution allows a single developer to scale their output exponentially, achieving what was previously team-level velocity.
* Developers must build or adopt specialized orchestration tools (like Treehouse and No Mistakes) to manage state, track agent progress, and catch errors.
* Visual artifacts and structured planning templates are becoming the primary interface for communicating intent to coding agents.
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