# How a Former NYU Professor Built a 34-Agent Team With Claude Code

> Source: https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-06-24-former-professor-34-agent-claude-code/
> Last updated: 2026-06-24
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# How a Former NYU Professor Built a 34-Agent Team With Claude Code

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In this conversation, AI advisor Allie K. Miller and former NYU data-science professor Dr. Andrea Jones-Roy discuss how Jones-Roy went from "just using ChatGPT" to running a 34-agent "digital workforce" in Claude Code — wired to Gmail and Google Workspace through MCP. It's a candid look at agentic onboarding, meta-prompting, and keeping critical thinking in the loop, rather than a step-by-step build.

Source video

"How a Former NYU Professor Uses Claude Code" by **Allie K. Miller** — [Watch on YouTube →](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gVMAbiQYMh8)

## Key Takeaways

- **She built 34 agents by first building an agent-builder.** Rather than hand-writing each one, she created one meta-agent (using Claude's `/skill` creator) that then generated the prompts for all 34 — "my wish from a genie is more wishes."
- **A research agent emails her a daily/weekly digest.** It surfaces new AI developments in her field — political science and AI-for-science — by pulling from Gmail and Google Workspace through MCP connectors she set up.
- **Claude Code runs on her own machine as the agent harness.** She confirms she chose Claude Code (over Codex), brought it onto her computer, and connected it to tools via MCP — then dictates ~90% of her own text and lets agents draft.
- **She reframed AI coding from "cheating" to liberating.** Her "soul" is in the data analysis and the architecture, not in hammering out Python syntax — so delegating the code felt like "motorcycling down the coast" instead of biking uphill on a rusty bike.
- **Her rule for responsible use: lead with your brain.** Be able to explain every decision (why this data, why this analysis), keep critical thinking in the loop, and never lean on AI under deadline pressure — "urgency is poison."

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