AI Engineer YouTube · May 15, 2026

How Building with AI Can Double the Throughput of Your Engineering Team — Brian Scanlan, Intercom

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Why it matters

Intercom hit 2x engineering throughput in under a year. Not by prompting better. By treating Claude Code like a new hire: onboarding it to a Rails monolith built over 15 years, writing skills for every recurring task, connecting it to production systems and internal tooling, and going all in on one platform instead of

My takeaway: Intercom hit 2x engineering throughput in under a year. Not by prompting better. By treating Claude Code like a new hire: onboarding it to a Rails monolith built over 15 years, writing skills for every recurring task, connecting it to production systems and internal tooling, and going all in on one platform instead of