How Gusto’s CTO uses Claude Code to ship like a startup
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Eddie Kim is the co-founder and CTO of the payroll and HR platform Gusto, which just crossed $1 billion in revenue and serves more than 500,000 small businesses. Recently he did something most CTOs do
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We had no meetings. We had no text backs. We had no Figmas. We had no Jira board where we tracked stories or tracked work. We had nothing. We used Cloudflare worker for the actual agent loop and Vercel AI SDK. That's it. >> People get really intimidated by the idea of building an agent and I'm like literally it's an agent SDK running somewhere in the cloud and if you use AI SDK you get to switch your model. That's it. It can look up files. It can have tools. It's really not that scary and complicated. >> Co-founder was primarily built by five folks over the course of 10 weeks from initial idea, zero code to a tier one launch at Gusto. >> How did you all make those precious decisions that only genius product managers can make about in or out of scope? Will this matter? >> We would build fea…