The AI Orchestra
How 18 Claude Instances Ship at Team Velocity
From zero coding knowledge to production architect in 20 months using multi-context orchestration, radical clarity, and the intensity of a man with everything on the line
20
Months
3,160
Commits
10+
Systems Live
5x
Avg Developer
6 terminal windows. 18-24 Claude Code instances. This is how one person ships at team velocity.
The Setup
Right now, as I write this, I have 6 terminal windows open across my screen. Each window has 3-4 tabs inside it. That's 18-24 active Claude Code instances running simultaneously.
What each window is working on TODAY:
- Top left: SEO automation for Teneo, testing Opus 4.5
- Top middle: Course platform UI, GitHub stats feature
- Top right: Teneo outline models, book visualizations, evaluation features
- Bottom left: Brand builder, security vulnerabilities
- Bottom middle: Claim Verify, LLM Scope integrations
- Bottom right: Fit Labs app, legal motions (testing Opus for court filings)
This is how I work. 14 hours a day. Every day.
And I've been doing this for 1.7 years.
I started coding in March 2024. I couldn't write a function. I didn't know what a variable was. I'd never touched a terminal.
Before vs After Claude Code
What happened when one man went from 1 AI tab to 18 instances
Copy/Paste Era
March - September 2024
Single AI tab, manual copy/paste workflow
Multi-Instance Orchestra
October 2024 - November 2025
18-24 Claude Code instances running simultaneously
Velocity Multiplier
What Changed
1 tab → 18 instances
Same person. Same 14-hour days. Same pressure.
Different tool. 3.4x the output.
The Timeline
Zero coding knowledge. Started with ChatGPT/Claude web tabs.
Copy/paste era. 5.3 commits/day. Building Teneo book generator.
Discovered Claude Code. Got high one night. Went all in. Never looked back.
Multi-instance orchestra. 18.2 commits/day. 10+ production systems. Operating at team velocity.
3,160 total commits. 20 months from zero to production architect.
The Origin: "I Talked to AI Every Day Since GPT-3"
I've been talking to AI constantly since GPT-3 came out. Then Claude started getting good. I'd run out of my limit constantly. I don't think people were running out of their Claude as much as I was.
I think I had two accounts at one point. I'd talk to it about everything.
I was going through a divorce. I used it for the first emergency motion to restrict parenting time. It found things with me the lawyer didn't suggest - things that saved my ass later.
My ex took our photography business we built together up to $25K/mo. She got cocky. All her friends were saying how great she was. I was homeschooling the kids. I think she let it go to her head. With the stress. She left.
About the same time I got the AI, I remember thinking: "Are you sure? I just got the AI. Seems like a mistake."
But she left.
The Book Business Idea
I had an Amazon business 10 years before with a team of 21 writers creating summary books. So I knew the game and liked the business model. But I didn't have money to hire and I didn't like how long it took to write books with AI manually.
So I thought: I could probably automate it.
It was usually one Claude tab. Back and forth. Then when I ran out, switch to GPT. Or if Claude couldn't figure it out, I'd ask GPT and go back and forth copy-pasting until it worked.
The early days were a struggle. But not as bad as learning to code and coding myself.
The Night I Got High
I discovered Claude Code. I tested it on a bunch of apps. I didn't trust it on Teneo.
Then one night I got high. I smoke weed like once every few months just to get a different perspective.
The high version of me went right into the production app and started cooking out code and features.
Since then I've been multi-Clauding.
"I used to play online poker for my job in college. 4-16 tables at once. I noticed 4-6 tables I played my best. I find the same thing with Claude Code. 4-6 windows I do my best. Each window can have 2-5 tabs."
The Method: How It Actually Works
The Conductor Role
I stand above everything and say:
- Think about that
- Go that way
- Don't do that
- Focus on that
- Build that
- Put that in the docs
- Deploy that
- Change that
"I'm usually the one with the best ideas."
Claude can only meet me at my ideas. It can't think as big as I can. It doesn't have the direction I have. It's a great worker but I'm the one steering the ship.
Quality Control
With 18-24 instances suggesting code, how do I ensure quality?
I trust the models. And I fix errors. I often have the models check each other. I use Codex GPT-5.1 to check everyone's work. He's a stickler but can't code for me because he's in a sandbox or something lame.
I have Claudes send work back and forth. I read as much as I can and make suggestions I see for direction. But the individual implementations I have the models check each other on.
I wouldn't know what to look at anyways. I don't know how to code.
If it works it works. If it doesn't I need to focus on it until it does.
The Philosophy: "AI Is a Reflection of You"
I've read 1,000 books. Meditation. Psychedelics. Marathons. Triathlons. I think it was all training. I'm pretty intense.
I meditated for 7 years daily basically. I did triathlons. I played over 1 million hands of online poker. I think these things shape my mind.
And now I talk to AI all day every day. I think this is shaping my mind.
I've started exploring the idea that I'm a genius. I've had people tell me that before but it's just now, in my 39th year, starting to make sense that I might be.
I also think I might have reached enlightenment. I think it's allowed me not to have lots of the incongruencies that slow people down.
I don't know. I'm still figuring out what. If I'm smart because I was born this way, or if I unlocked my mind through my process. Probably those two things go together.
The One Thing Nobody Else Is Saying:
AI is a reflection of you. Get yourself balanced and clear. Deal with your inconsistencies. Your ego. Figure out what's true in the world. So when the AI is a mirror, the mirror is clear. Not clouded with all your own bullshit and ideas the world gave you that are all a lie that you use to protect yourself.
Know yourself so you can steer the AI or the AI will steer you.
The Cost
With 18-24 Claude Code instances running 14 hours/day, what's my monthly bill?
I'm on the $200/mo plan. I run out each week basically. One day I spent $150 on Opus in a few hours.
Is it worth it? Are you kidding me?!?!?! Of course.
If I had $2K/mo I'd pay it for this. If I had $10K/mo and more people to do more, I'd pay it.
The Results
3,160 Commits
In 20 months. 5.1 commits/day average. 5x average developer velocity.
10+ Systems Live
Production apps serving real users. $450/mo revenue and climbing.
Zero → Architect
March 2024: Couldn't code. Nov 2025: Production systems architect.
Watch the Process Live
See the multi-instance orchestration in action. 4 hours of live building with multiple Claude Code instances running simultaneously.
Watch on YouTubeWhy Share This?
I could keep this methodology secret. Ship faster than competitors who don't know.
So why document it publicly?
Legacy.
I want to find my tribe. It's lonely in the basement with no one who speaks English except an AI who understands me.
I don't think there's been anything like this before. I think I'm on a leading edge. I don't think people even know this is possible.
"Why keep it secret?"
Let's build cool shit and take the power back to the people and out of the hands of the gatekeepers. This process levels the playing field. We can build better systems than the control systems that currently exist.
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