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Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by louiskw »

lharries wrote: post #2

I used this last week and it's excellent - feels like the same increase in productivity increase from when I first used Cursor. Are you thinking of doing a hosted version so I can have my team collab on it? And I found I could open lots of PRs at once but they often need to be dependent on each other - and then I want to make a change to the first one. How are you thinking of better managing that flow?

Yeah I think giving the option to move execution to the cloud makes a lot of sense, I already find my macbook slowing down after 4 concurrent runs, mainly rustc.

Also now we're pushing many more PRs think we defo need better ways to stack and review work. Will look into this asap

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by unshavedyak »

deepdarkforest wrote: post #8

This is a launch by a YC company that converts enterprise cobol code into java. Maybe it's my fault, but i tried every single coding agent with a variety of similar tools and whenever i try to parallelize, they clash while editing files simultaneously, i lose mental context of what's going on, they rewrite tests etc. It's chaos. Thats fine if you are vibe coding an unimportant nextjs/vercel demo, but i'm really scept…

> Maybe it's my fault, but i tried every single coding agent with a variety of similar tools and whenever i try to parallelize, they clash while editing files simultaneously, i lose mental context of what's going on, they rewrite tests etc.

Fwiw Claude suggests using different git workspaces for your agents. This would entirely solve the clashing, though they may still conflict and need normal git conflict resolves of course.

Theoretically that would work fine, as it would be just like two people working on different branches/repos/etc.

I've not tried that though. AI generates way too much code for me to review as it is, several subtasks working concurrently would be overwhelming for me.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by ggordonhall »

shibeprime wrote: post #10

Now we just let a CTO agent create the cards, review, and merge the PRs?

We have this! Vibe Kanban includes its own MCP server that you can use to create tickets within the Kanban board.

Click on the MCP Servers tab, then hit "Add Vibe Kanban MCP". Then create and start a "planning" ticket like "Plan a migration from AWS to Azure and create detailed tickets for each step along the way". Sit back and watch the cards roll in!

Will do more to document this better soon :)

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by louiskw »

deepdarkforest wrote: post #8

This is a launch by a YC company that converts enterprise cobol code into java. Maybe it's my fault, but i tried every single coding agent with a variety of similar tools and whenever i try to parallelize, they clash while editing files simultaneously, i lose mental context of what's going on, they rewrite tests etc. It's chaos. Thats fine if you are vibe coding an unimportant nextjs/vercel demo, but i'm really scept…

This is a bet on a future where code is increasingly written by AI and we as human engineers need the best tools to review that work, catch issues and uphold quality.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by _jayhack_ »

Very cool and interesting project. Ideas like this are a threat to traditionally-conceived project management platforms like Linear; that being said, Linear and others (Monday, ClickUp, etc.) are pushing aggressively into UX built for human/AI collaboration. I guess the question is how quickly they can execute and how many novel features are required to properly bring AI into the human project workspace

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by oc1 »

We need something like a kitchen brigade in software - one who writes the vibe code tickets (Chef de Vibe), one who reviews the vibe code (Sous-Vibe), one who oversees the agents and restarts them if they get hung up (Agent de Station). We could theoretically smash thousand tickets a day with this principle

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by louiskw »

skeptrune wrote: post #9

I remember the original Bloop search engine! Some kind of UI or management system like this seems like it would be high level useful. Will have to give it a run.

Nostalgia!

Let me know if any issues, we're turning feedback around pretty quick

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by deepdarkforest »

louiskw wrote: post #14
deepdarkforest wrote: post #8

This is a launch by a YC company that converts enterprise cobol code into java. Maybe it's my fault, but i tried every single coding agent with a variety of similar tools and whenever i try to parallelize, they clash while editing files simultaneously, i lose mental context of what's going on, they rewrite tests etc. It's chaos. Thats fine if you are vibe coding an unimportant nextjs/vercel demo, but i'm really scept…

This is a bet on a future where code is increasingly written by AI and we as human engineers need the best tools to review that work, catch issues and uphold quality.

I don't disagree, but the current sentiment i was referring to seems to be "maximize AI code generation with tools helping you to do that" rather than "prioritize code quality over AI leverage, even if it means limiting AI use somewhat."

Re: Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

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Post by ggordonhall »

oc1 wrote: post #16

We need something like a kitchen brigade in software - one who writes the vibe code tickets (Chef de Vibe), one who reviews the vibe code (Sous-Vibe), one who oversees the agents and restarts them if they get hung up (Agent de Station). We could theoretically smash thousand tickets a day with this principle

Completely agree!

You can actually use a coding agent to create tickets from within Vibe Kanban. Add the Vibe Kanban MCP server (from MCP settings) and ask the agent to plan a task and write tickets.

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