The folder is the agent: how one engineer sustainably runs 44 specialized AI agents
danshipper · x · 2026-09-05
- Kieran Klaassen, GM of Every's Cora, spent three months trying agent swarms — Claude Code teams, agents dispatching to agents, lead-agent-with-worker-pool setups — and found more agents didn't make him faster, just burned tokens.
- His conclusion: parallel Claude Code sessions work when each agent has a clear task and a human directs the work; agent-to-agent coordination doesn't.
- He now runs 44 specialized agents across projects using a "folder as the agent" architecture: each agent is just a model pointed at a folder, with folder structure replacing complex orchestration — a sustainable way to compound engineering output.
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