How Untangle's founder runs 20 AI coding agents under one voice-managed 'manager agent'
AI Engineer · youtube · 2026-11-10
In an AI Engineer interview, Untangle founder Ryan Carson (a four-time founder) shows how his team develops software with cloud agents:
- One 'engineering manager' agent, mostly directed by voice, manages up to 20 builder agents via a ticket board, with automation checking every builder every 15 minutes.
- Quality control includes capped review loops, QA agents, and a merge queue manager agent.
- The one human step he won't skip: watching a video of each feature before it ships.
- He advocates stopping local coding entirely, running everything in the cloud across the team.
- Hiring has changed too: candidates record themselves shipping a real feature with an agent, agents rank the videos, and the top five get a paid trial.
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