You’re the Bread in the AI Sandwich

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YOU’RE THE BREAD IN THE AI SANDWICH
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Today, we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I
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sits down with Kieran Klaassen
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GM of Cora
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and creator of Every’s AI-native engineering methodology, compound engineering
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Dan and Kieran discuss where humans fit now that AI can generate high-quality
code, copy, strategy, and design. If the execution layer is largely solved, do
engineers still have a role in the workplace?

The short answer: Yes. Think of an AI workflow like a sandwich—the model is the
workhorse filling, and we’re the bread, providing framing and taste.

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Here are the highlights:

 1. Play to your strengths. Kieran’s compound engineering framework
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    breaks the engineering workflow into four steps: Plan, work, review, and
    compound. AI takes care of the doing phase. “LLMs are very good at just
    following steps, doing deep work, working for hours or days, even now,”
    Kieran says. What’s left for flesh-and-blood humans are the steps before and
    after—the planning, where you frame the problem, and review, where you
    determine whether the output feels right (the bread!).
 2. Humans can identify multiple solutions to the same problem—AI struggles at
    this. If your knee hurts, you could take Advil, stretch your IT band
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    or stop running on hard surfaces. Humans are good at diagnosing a problem
    from many different angles, an exercise agents struggle with, Dan says.
 3. Taste
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    is the final layer of bread. Once AI has done the work, the most important
    thing you can do is judge whether the output approaches the vision in your
    head. Does the output feel right—and if not, how can you reframe the problem
    until the AI produces something that does? This is what separates art, which
    has a point of view, from generic slop.

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the team that built Claude Code, Cat Wu
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# 'AI & I': YOU'RE THE BREAD IN THE AI SANDWICH

Dan Shipper sits down with Kieran Klaassen, GM of Cora and creator of Every's AI-native engineering methodology, compound engineering.

Dan and Kieran discuss where humans fit now that AI can generate high-quality code, copy, strategy, and design. If the execution layer is largely solved, do engineers still have a role in the workplace?

The short answer: Yes. Think of an AI workflow like a sandwich—the model is the workhorse filling, and we're the bread, providing framing and taste.

Here are the highlights:

1. Play to your strengths. Kieran's compound engineering framework breaks the engineering workflow into four steps: Plan, work, review, and compound. AI takes care of the doing phase. "LLMs are very good at just following steps, doing deep work, working for hours or days, even now," Kieran says. What's left for flesh-and-blood humans are the steps before and after—the planning, where you frame the problem, and review, where you determine whether the output feels right (the bread!).

2. Humans can identify multiple solutions to the same problem—AI struggles at this. If your knee hurts, you could take Advil, stretch your IT band, or stop running on hard surfaces. Humans are good at diagnosing a problem from many different angles, an exercise agents struggle with, Dan says.

3. Taste is the final layer of bread. Once AI has done the work, the most important thing you can do is judge whether the output approaches the vision in your head. Does the output feel right—and if not, how can you reframe the problem until the AI produces something that does? This is what separates art, which has a point of view, from generic slop.

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