How This Ex-Meta L8 Engineer Ships 40 PRs a Day with AI Agents | Kun Chen

How This Ex-Meta L8 Engineer Ships 40 PRs a Day with AI Agents | Kun Chen

Author: Peter Yang June 7, 2026 Duration: 56:18

Kun is an ex-L8 principal engineer at Meta and Microsoft who now ships 40 PRs a day without manually reviewing code. In our episode, he walked through the free tools he built to make that possible: Lavish for visual planning in HTML artifacts, Treehouse for parallel agents, and No Mistakes for catching AI coding errors before they make it to production.


Kun and I talked about:

(00:00) Why he doesn't review code anymore

(01:04) Agentic engineering: Plan, code, validate

(06:22) Demo: Fixing an AI tutor screen with agents

(08:40) Demo: Why HTML is better than markdown for planning

(19:53) How to turn a rough idea into an AI-ready spec

(23:21) How Kun runs 20-30 agents in parallel

(32:04) No Mistakes: Kun's free AI code review tool

(45:19) What Kun checks before merging AI-written code

(50:18) How to get better at agentic engineering


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Where to find Kun:

GitHub: https://github.com/kunchenguid

X: https://x.com/kunchenguid


Kun's free tools from the episode:

Lavish (HTML editor): https://github.com/kunchenguid/lavish-axi

Treehouse: https://github.com/kunchenguid/treehouse

No Mistakes (AI code review): https://github.com/kunchenguid/no-mistakes


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