I couldn’t ship 1.5 million lines of code daily without orchestrated agents.
Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find if you just ask the agents to resolve the conflicts they do a pretty great job. It's even better if you can feed them all the context while resolving the conflict.
The harder problem is conflicting design choices, or duplicating similar infra. It means I need to be much more involved in steering individual agents and planning up front (waterfall style), which limits the parallelism further
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#43> Steve Yegge said he feels "sorry for people" who merely "use Cursor, ask it questions sometimes, review its code really carefully, and then check it in." Steve Yegge is building a multi-agent orchestration system. This is him trying to FOMO listeners into using his project. From what I've observed, the people trying to use herds of agents to work on different things at the same time are just using tokens as fast as…
Also, Steve Yegge is a swindler and scammer, who benefited financially from pump and dump scheme advertised by him on his blog. See https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-... Note that some disclaimers, warnings were added afterwards.
Details?
Re: Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, Steve Yegge is a swindler and scammer, who benefited financially from pump and dump scheme advertised by him on his blog. See https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-... Note that some disclaimers, warnings were added afterwards.
Details?
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/22/steve-yegges-gas-town-vib... seems to be a decent writeup.
But https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-... by itself is quite damming and obvious.
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#45No I'm not, but not because I don't want to. To safely use an AI agent, it needs a ton of safety guardrails that (afaict) are difficult to set up. A lot of the safety guardrails we need don't even exist yet.
I'm working on all that currently. Trying to set up local systems to do practical and secure orchestrated AI work, without over-reliance on proprietary systems and platforms. Turns out it's a buttload of work. Yegge's own project (Gas Town) is a real world attempt to build just the agent part, and still many more parts are needed. It's so complicated, I don't think any open source solution is going to become dominant, because there's too much to integrate. The company that perfects this is going to be the next GitHub and Heroku rolled into one.
I get why people question all this. It's a completely different way of working that flies in the face of every best practice and common-sense lesson you learn as a software developer. But once you wrap your head around it, it makes total sense. You don't need to read code to know a system works and is reliable. You don't need to manually inspect the quality of things if there's other ways to establish trust. Work gets done a lot faster with automation, ironically with fewer errors. You can use cutting-edge technology to improve safety and performance, and ship faster.
These aren't crazy hypothetical ideals - what I just described is modern auto manufacturing. If it's safe enough for a car, it's safe enough for a web app.
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#47Having gone through his interview just now, his advice and experience seems centered around Vibe coding new applications and not really reflective of the reality of the industry. > But I feel sorry for people who are good engineers – or who used to be – and they use Cursor, ask it questions sometimes, review its code really carefully, and then check it in. And I’m like: ‘dude, you’re going to get fired [because you a…
>> I would certainly take a careful person over the likes of yegge who seems to be neither pragmatic, nor an engineer. What utter nonsense. Yegge has been a programmer for longer than some people on this board have been alive, has worked on a lot of interesting and massively challenging projects and generously shared what he has learned with the community. Questioning his engineering chops is both laughable and absur…
the buck on engineer status in my opinion stops when someone becomes a crypto scammer.
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#49I think there’s a level beyond 8: not reviewing AI-generated code.
There’s a lot of discussion about whether to let AI write most of your code (which at least in some circles is largely settled by now), but when I see hype-posts about “AI is writing almost all of our code”, the top question I’m curious about is, how much of the AI-written code are they reviewing ?
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#50Steve is basically an Instagram influencer for coders. He'll say whatever he can to stay in the spotlight, try to make you feel bad, that you're doing things wrong, that he invented things like agent orchestration when in fact he's just a loudmouth. Ignore him and his stupid gastown and get on with your life.
Attention is all everyone wants.