How one founder runs his company with agents

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TLDR
Ryan Carson tells Greg Isenberg how he runs Untangle solo, shipping 22 to 40 PRs daily via parallel cloud agents and disciplined model routing.
Best for
Solo founders with a software product who run several coding agents at once.
The tip
Set up a 9am production watchdog that summarizes what every paying customer did yesterday, with a link to see each action. Ryan Carson reads it every morning.
What you need
  • cloud coding agents (he uses Devin, from Cognition)
The prompt

Every day at 9am, look at everything our paying customers did in the app yesterday. Write me a short summary: the most important things that happened and anything that went wrong. For each item, write a line like 'Customer did X' with a link to see it.

our prompt
Start here
  1. Move agent work to the cloud so five to ten sessions run at once.
  2. Pin the threads that matter today and check agents about every 25 minutes.
  3. Set up the 9am watchdog on your paying customers.
Filed note
Greg Isenberg on managing agents instead of writing the code yourself. Worth going back to whenever my stack shifts.

videoThe source

Moments

  1. Move to cloud agents. Each session gets its own VM, so five to ten run at once with no code conflicts.

  2. Expect 10 to 20 important decisions by lunch. Pin the threads that matter and check agents about every 25 minutes.

  3. A 9am production watchdog summarizes what every paying customer did, with links to see each action.

  4. He spent about $20k on tokens last month and calls it unsustainable. Cheaper tuned models now run his improvement loops.

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