Jared is a Builder in Residence at Cognition, the team behind Devin. He showed me why teams often overbuild their first agents, and how simple prompts, better tools, and self-testing work together instead. Then he demoed one manager agent breaking down a task, directing 10 cloud agents, and deciding what a human needs to review. Jared and I talked about: (00:00) Why teams overbuild their first AI agent (02:50) Let the model cook before adding rules (03:16) Why tools matter more than better prompts (10:51) Why you should build evals after shipping (16:06) What cloud agents can do that local agents can’t (20:30) How to get one agent to manage other agents (25:39) Demo: One agent launches a team of 10 (28:03) How agents prove their work before you review it (33:18) The best tasks for agent teams to work on Thanks to our sponsors: Riverside: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video https://creators.riverside.com/PeterYang Linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams https://linear.app/behind-the-craft Wispr Flow: 4x faster than typing with your voice https://ref.wisprflow.ai/peteryang 📌 Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/how-to-build-ai-agents-that-check-their-own-work-jared-cognition-devin 📌 Get my personal AI OS with useful AI skills, $270 in AI tool credits, live monthly workshops, and courses on Hermes and Codex agents: https://www.behindthecraft.com/ Where to find Jared: X: https://x.com/imjaredz Devin: https://devin.ai Subscribe to this channel - more interviews coming soon!