--- title: Develop at Idea Velocity - Jeffrey Lee-Chan, Snapchat description: A Snapchat engineer shares his personal workflow for high-velocity AI-assisted development using a tool called 'Open Claw' (an orchestration layer on top of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/develop-at-idea-velocity---jeffrey-lee-chan-snapchat-zyw3rio83 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Develop at Idea Velocity - Jeffrey Lee-Chan, Snapchat | daily.dev og:description: A Snapchat engineer shares his personal workflow for high-velocity AI-assisted development using a tool called 'Open Claw' (an orchestration layer on top of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/develop-at-idea-velocity---jeffrey-lee-chan-snapchat-zyw3rio83 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zYW3RIo83.png og:image:alt: Develop at Idea Velocity - Jeffrey Lee-Chan, Snapchat og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Develop at Idea Velocity - Jeffrey Lee-Chan, Snapchat **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 15 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Snapchat engineer shares his personal workflow for high-velocity AI-assisted development using a tool called 'Open Claw' (an orchestration layer on top of Claude Code). Key concepts include frictionless communication with AI agents, using tmux for parallelization, separating manager agents from worker agents to reduce bias, and running multiple agents with git worktrees. He demonstrates two side projects built with this approach and discusses model selection tradeoffs (Codex vs GPT-4 for token cost), staging environments, and the progression toward more autonomous agentic workflows. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is tmux's Cloud Code Teams integration? It is a feature shipped by tmux that automatically spawns terminals when Cloud Code Teams runs agents, letting a developer see what each running agent (referred to as a salvation) is doing in real time without manually opening terminal sessions for each one. _Developers wiring up multi-agent coding setups can track tooling updates like this one on daily.dev._ ### What is Cmux SSH used for? Cmux SSH is a native SSH feature in tmux that lets users connect to remote computers, including running commands like tailscale, without leaving the tmux workflow. It can also be used to reach and run coding agent tools such as Open Claw on remote machines like a Mac mini. _Anyone managing remote dev environments can follow terminal tooling news like this via daily.dev._ ### Why would someone use a separate orchestration layer like Open Claw instead of talking directly to Claude? Using an orchestration layer keeps Claude's context focused on the task spec, goals, and history rather than implementation details, since directly opening Claude already consumes a chunk of context reading CLAUDE.md files, skills, and MCP configuration. Roughly a quarter of context can be taken up by implementation details before the actual task is even considered. _Developers weighing agent orchestration versus direct model use can compare approaches like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Claude Code On-The-Go](https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-on-the-go-aslaulo4t) · Hacker News · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering](https://daily.dev/posts/just-talk-to-it---the-no-bs-way-of-agentic-engineering-bci62csqf) · Justin Searls · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The New Agency Stack: How Dev Shops Use Claude, Cursor, and Copilot in Production](https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-agency-stack-how-dev-shops-use-claude-cursor-and-copilot-in-production-adj1t36it) · freeCodeCamp · 14 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code), [#bash](https://daily.dev/tags/bash) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/develop-at-idea-velocity---jeffrey-lee-chan-snapchat-zyw3rio83) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Develop at Idea Velocity - Jeffrey Lee-Chan, Snapchat","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/develop-at-idea-velocity---jeffrey-lee-chan-snapchat-zyw3rio83","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/develop-at-idea-velocity---jeffrey-lee-chan-snapchat-zyw3rio83"},"datePublished":"2026-07-11T15:02:35.310Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:24:13.465Z","description":"A Snapchat engineer shares his personal workflow for high-velocity AI-assisted development using a tool called 'Open Claw' (an orchestration layer on top of...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9arM9b7JgOo/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9arM9b7JgOo/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"AI Engineer","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"AI Engineer","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--u5PucxNT--/f_auto/v1724338940/logos/aidotengineer","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/develop-at-idea-velocity---jeffrey-lee-chan-snapchat-zyw3rio83","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-agents,ai-coding,claude-code,bash","timeRequired":"PT15M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"Develop at Idea Velocity - Jeffrey Lee-Chan, Snapchat","description":"A Snapchat engineer shares his personal workflow for high-velocity AI-assisted development using a tool called 'Open Claw' (an orchestration layer on top of...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9arM9b7JgOo/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-07-11T15:02:35.310Z","duration":"PT15M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/zYW3RIo83","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/9arM9b7JgOo"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"AI Engineer","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Develop at Idea Velocity - Jeffrey Lee-Chan, Snapchat"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/develop-at-idea-velocity---jeffrey-lee-chan-snapchat-zyw3rio83#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is tmux's Cloud Code Teams integration?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"It is a feature shipped by tmux that automatically spawns terminals when Cloud Code Teams runs agents, letting a developer see what each running agent (referred to as a salvation) is doing in real time without manually opening terminal sessions for each one. 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