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title: "A COO replaced two developers by building the agency's own software with AI"
date: 2026-10-20
url: "https://morningtokens.com/workflows/a-coo-replaced-two-developers-by-building/"
source: "https://x.com/sortofadev/status/2111601775765860690"
issue: "https://morningtokens.com/issues/2026-10-20/"
---

# A COO replaced two developers by building the agency's own software with AI

## How can AI replace two full-time developers and paid tools like DashThis?

- **Replaces:** two full-time developers and paid tools like DashThis (client reporting) and Loom (screen recordings).
- **How it works:** change requests that used to be scattered across Slack messages and screenshots now arrive as a screen recording, which goes to Claude Opus 5.5.
  - The model investigates, builds the change, runs checks and opens a pull request that a person reviews and merges.
- **Results:** 580 pull requests merged in six months.
- **What to connect:**
  - a coding agent (Claude Opus 5.5) with repo access and CI checks;
  - Meta and Google Ads data for reports;
  - an open-source screen recorder (Screenity) wired into the internal app.
- **Who it's for:** operations leads at agencies and other service businesses who know the workflows and are ready to review pull requests instead of writing code.

Source: https://x.com/sortofadev/status/2111601775765860690

From the Morning Tokens issue of 2026-10-20: https://morningtokens.com/issues/2026-10-20/