The Exact AI Skills This Solo Founder Uses to Build 5 Apps at Once | Josh Pigford

Behind the Craft · 2026-06-06 · 32 min

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Episode notes

Josh sold his last startup for $4M and is now building 5 products solo with agents. He showed me his exact AI skills stack, including a 4-step /build skill, an /adversarial-code-review skill where he pits Opus against GPT, a /but-for-real skill that makes the AI catch its own mistakes, and a /learnings skill that improves AI’s output over time. Josh has been a solo builder for 25 years and it was fascinating to watch how he works. Josh and I talked about: (00:00) Why launching fast beats months of planning (01:02) A tour of the 5 AI products Josh built solo (05:22) /build skill: Research, plan, track, implement (10:52) /adversarial-code-review skill: Getting GPT to review Opus' code (16:02) /learnings skill: Make AI update its own CLAUDE.md (16:47) /but-for-real skill: Make AI fix its own mistakes (19:11) Live demo: How to design non AI slop websites (28:55) Advice for builders without technical experience Thanks to our sponsors: Oceans: Hire AI-native EAs Wispr Flow: Don't type, just speak Linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams.

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