It's Alive! They're Alive! I Just Built an AI Agent Dev Team

I was hoping to have the next funding round ready for another Summer Internship but the transition from an LLC to C Corp and documentation preparation have proven more complex than I had expected and I ran into some personal problems that slowed everything down. While working on transitioning to a C Corp and preparing funding documentation, I had run into a big issue. The process where the algorithm re-ranks top songs by likes and listens each week was slowly not working and whatever the issue was was getting bigger. So I went through scripts and thought, without reaching out to the intern who built it as I have already done so many times I felt used up that resource, so I hit a script that I thought might fix it and ... it completely broke the whole thing. This seemed too big a problem, too complex for Claude Code plus I did not build it so I had almost no idea how it actually worked, but with all the hype around Opus 4.7 and hearing that 80% of the coding (now 100%) is being done by Claude itself, I decided to give it a shot... and it worked better than expected. In fact, Claude made some recommendations and I think actually made some improvements. So I built out a long list of features I want to add. Over 20. Claude helped flesh those out, made recommendations, prioritized them, and put them in 5 phases where the 5th is low priority, nice to haves. Some pretty simple features like expanding the user model to extend access and roles for bands and venues, Facebook/Google/Apple login, and SEO improvements (which have doubled our monthly impressions already without Google yet completely catching up). Others are considerably more complex like integration with Stripe and fleshing out self-serve billing for products, expanding from getting events from Ticketmaster and adding 5 additional ticket platform API integration, taking the JavaScript website front-end and building native Android and iOS apps, and extending AI integration. The first phase was done in less than a day, but testing, bug fixes, etc took over 4 days. So... I decided to build 3 agents: "Cody" the coder (which is more or less the Claude Code on my desktop almost as is), "Tess" the tester, and "Desi" the designer. Each agent is a self contained “plugin”. Now the cycle looks like Desi designs new features with input and assistance from me, Cody builds them, and Tess tests, logs bugs and issues, which then go back to Cody. In other words, I have gotten out of the way as much as possible. Now instead of testing, I am more of a project manager that has more time to work with Desi to focus on the look and feel of the new features or pages and generally think bigger picture instead of head down in the weeds. Additionally, the testing and bug fixing that Desi is doing is light-years ahead of what I was doing last year in the Summer Sprint with 2 interns. So no word yet on how much faster this 4 person team will be. Creating and implementing these 3 agents have been a 4 day project in itself, which has meant putting the main project on hold. Check back for updates. In a few weeks I should have some insight and, who knows, I may already be done with this Summers' Sprint.