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.
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill building-with-ai-agents --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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 Specific
- How to Help
- Core Principles
- The Directorial Shift
- Absolute Specificity
- High-Level Reasoning and Orchestration
- Asynchronous Coordination
- Eliminate Manual Escape Hatches
- Multi-Model Peer Review
- Templates & Frameworks
- Questions to Help Users
- Common Mistakes to Flag
- Deep Dive
- Related Skills
What does the building-with-ai-agents skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill building-with-ai-agents --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From RefoundAI/lenny-skills, a repository with 1,215 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.