How Two Engineers Ship Like a Team of 15 With AI Agents

Jun 11, 2025

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Nityesh Agarwal

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Kieran Klaassen

Kieran Klaassen, general manager of Cora, and engineer Nityesh Agarwal share their insights about leveraging AI to enhance engineering workflows. They discuss how AI agents like Claude Code help streamline coding processes, enabling them to ship features like a team of 15. The pair explores collaborative coding techniques, real-time feedback integration, and effective use of AI in problem-solving. They also rank various AI coding assistants, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, making a compelling case for how AI can revolutionize software development.

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AI Enables Compounding Engineering

Coding with AI goes beyond writing code itself to include research and workflow automation.
Treat AI as a co-worker that handles multiple engineering tasks, enabling compounding productivity.

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AI Fixes Production Bug Quickly

Kieran fixed an email form issue by asking Cloud Code to investigate and generate a fix immediately.
The AI created a pull request and a script to handle missed users, saving hours of manual work.

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Prepping for AI Model Arrival

The team prepared for Cloud Code by listing 20 issues for the AI to solve the next day.
They used dramatic ChatGPT prompts to simulate an AGI arrival and prepare thorough feature plans.

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If you’re using AI to just write code, you’re missing out.

Two engineers at Every shipped six features, five bug fixes, and three infrastructure updates in one week—and they did it by designing workflows with AI agents, where each task makes the next one easier, faster, and more reliable.

In this episode of AI & I, Dan Shipper interviewed the pair—Kieran Klaassen, general manager of Cora, our inbox management tool, and Cora engineer Nityesh Agarwal—about how they’re compounding their engineering with AI. They walk Dan through their workflow in Anthropic’s agentic coding tool, Claude Code, and the mental models they’ve developed for making AI agents truly useful. Kieran, our resident AI-agent aficionado, also ranked all the AI coding assistants he’s used.

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Timestamps:

Introduction: 00:01:16
Why Kieran believes agents are turning a corner: 00:03:18
Why Claude Code stands out from other agents: 00:06:36
What makes agentic coding different from using tools like Cursor: 00:11:58
The Cora team’s workflow to turn tasks into momentum: 00:15:20
How to build a prompt that turns ideas into plans: 00:23:07
The new mental models for this age of software engineering: 00:34:00
Why traditional tests and evals still matter: 00:39:13
Kieran ranks all the AI coding agents he’s used: 00:42:00

Links to resources mentioned in the episode:

Try Cora, our AI email assistant: https://cora.computer/
Kieran Klaassen: @kieranklaassen
Nityesh Agarwal: @nityeshaga
The book that helps Nityesh form mental models to work with AI agents: High Output Management
A guide to Anthropic’s prompt improver: https://www.anthropic.com/news/prompt-improver