Compound Engineering after a year: shipping more than ever, but my brain got softer
danshipper · x · 2026-09-09
Kieran Klaassen, GM of Cora at Every, reflects on a year of Compound Engineering: he kept replacing the parts of coding that still needed him with skills, frameworks, and agent-routing steps — and shipped more than ever. But his own learning stalled: his mind felt like a TikTok feed of short dopamine hits. His fix: add a loop that fills gaps in his own understanding before they become blind spots, because AI can run your work in the dark — just don't let it turn the lights out in your head too.
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