All In on Claude Code at 400-Engineer Scale with Brian Scanlan, Intercom

"You assemble a senior engineer out of hundreds of these skills. Each one is a little building block. We take the time and sweat the details on making sure they are great and almost near perfect at what they do." In this episode of the HangarDX podcast, Ankit Jain, co-founder and CEO of Aviator, talks to Brian Scanlan, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom, about how Intercom set a goal of doubling engineering throughput with AI, why low-quality skills are worse than no skills at all, and how a platform team of eight is enabling 400 engineers to make all technical work agent-first. 00:00 Developer Experience and AI 03:01 Intercom's Engineering Team and AI Integration 05:49 Building a Skills Framework for Developer Productivity 08:55 Data-Driven Insights and Skill Improvement 12:05 Quality Control in Skills Development 14:40 Managing Context and Skill Overlap 18:00 Self-Improving Skills and Knowledge Systems 20:53 Ownership and Maintenance of Skills 23:43 Encouraging Adoption of AI Tools 26:52 Building Trust for Production Access 29:50 Business Continuity and Multi-Provider Strategies Brian's blog post: https://ideas.fin.ai/p/how-we-use-claude-code-today-at-intercom 📫 Sign up to our email list for more podcasts, articles, events, and other updates: https://www.aviator.co/podcast ✏️ Subscribe for more videos: @Aviator-Co 🙌 Join a curated community of senior engineers and engineering leaders focused on developer experience and solving productivity challenges at scale! Check out our upcoming off-the-record online sessions where vetted, experienced professionals can exchange ideas and share hard-earned wisdom: https://dx.community/