Episode #30
Meet Ada, My AI Software Factory on Claude Code, Explained
Nick has an AI chief of staff. Her name is Ada. She organizes his work, executes a real share of it, and helps him think through what is possible. Ask what she actually is and the answer is deflationary on purpose: a series of markdown files, which is just text files, and a database. Nick did not build a model. He built the context that Claude, the intelligence layer, reads and acts on. Jesse takes the interview chair this episode. He gets the 30 second version, the Ada Lovelace naming story, and then a walkthrough of a 3D model of Ada that Ada made of herself, in one shot, in under an hour, while Nick was doing other work for this show. Inside it: the memory pages, the working files pulled fresh per session, the Postgres database underneath, and the inbound lane where forwarded email and call transcripts arrive. Then the two ideas worth taking home. First, the split. Focused work is the thing only Nick can do. Background work is the three factory loops running while he talks. His goal is to always have at least one thing running that does not need him. Second, the honest misses. The Telegram chat lane he set up and never used. The check in messages he built and abandoned. A 16 bit village view of his agents that he calls more fun than useful, right up until he explains the one case where it earns its keep, which is when you are running five thousand agents and no ledger of text helps at a glance. Jesse asks whether the gain is speed. Nick says speed is real, but the bigger gain is width. If you are thinking about building something like this, Jesse's advice closes the show. Markdown brick by markdown brick. Links and everything else we make: https://nryet.ai
