Organizing Claude Code agents like a traditional software engineering team

An engineer experimented with organizing an automated coding agent framework like a traditional software engineering organization, featuring an overall tech lead, feature leads, and smaller developer agents. Over five weeks, the 2,896 agents merged 1,711 pull requests with high code quality, though bottlenecks emerged around human approvals and CI/review costs. The author reflects that while organizational productivity increased, it distanced him from the direct building process. Open article →