Prototyping as Leadership: How a CTO Ships with AI Agents — Hursh Agrawal, The Browser Company
Aug 20, 2026 · 18:18
Hursh Agrawal, CTO and co-founder of The Browser Company, argues AI coding agents let leaders keep building: despite 15+ meetings, 7 direct reports, and a toddler, he ships 2–10 PRs/week. He says frontier models turn over every three months, so hands-on building is the only way to judge them and show engineers working prototypes. His method is an overnight loop: a coworker agent gathers Slack/Jira/Notion context into a prompt at 5pm, coding agent runs for hours, and a morning hour reviews tests, CI, and AI code review. He details three overnight uses: building features, hill-climbing evals from feedback JSONs, and training custom models like a PII classifier on AWS. He warns leaders to avoid critical path work and to rely on trustworthy CI, feature flags, a prototype branch, and readable PRs.
