We are at a weird moment where the latency of the response is slow enough that we're anthropomorphizing AI code assistants into employees. We don't talk about image generation this way. With images, its batching up a few jobs and reviewing the results later. We don't say "I spun up a bunch of AI artists."
Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
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Re: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
#12Previous submission here with some comments already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45481585
Thanks! Looks like that post didn't get any frontpage time. Since the current thread is on the frontpage, maybe we'll merge those comments hither.
(Warning: this involves adjusting timestamps a la https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., which is sometimes confusing...)
Re: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
#13I'm not convinced there is any hope for a productive, long-term, burnout-free parallel agent workflow.
Not while they need even the slightest amount of supervision/review.
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#14Along these lines, how does everyone visually organize the multiple terminal tabs open for these numerous agents in various states?
I wish there were a way to search across all open tabs.
I've started color-coding my Claude code tabs, all red, which helps me to find them visually. I do this with a preexec in my ~/.zshrc.
But wondering if anyone else has any better tricks for organizing all of these agent tabs?
I'm using iTerm2 on macOS.
Re: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
#15I'm not convinced there is any hope for a productive, long-term, burnout-free parallel agent workflow. Not while they need even the slightest amount of supervision/review.
Yea, i find success in LLMs overall but the quality of the work is proportional to how much oversight there is.
Re: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
#16There are quite a few products designed to help manage multiple agents at once. I'm trying out Conductor right now - https://conductor.build/ - it's a pretty slick macOS desktop app that handles running Claude Code within a GUI and uses Git worktrees to manage separate checkouts at the same time.
Re: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
#17We are at a weird moment where the latency of the response is slow enough that we're anthropomorphizing AI code assistants into employees. We don't talk about image generation this way. With images, its batching up a few jobs and reviewing the results later. We don't say "I spun up a bunch of AI artists."
Are there any semi autonomous agentic systems for image generation? I feel like mostly it's still a one shot deal but maybe there's an idea there.
I guess Adobe is working on it. Maybe Figma too.
Re: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
#18We are at a weird moment where the latency of the response is slow enough that we're anthropomorphizing AI code assistants into employees. We don't talk about image generation this way. With images, its batching up a few jobs and reviewing the results later. We don't say "I spun up a bunch of AI artists."
Are there any semi autonomous agentic systems for image generation? I feel like mostly it's still a one shot deal but maybe there's an idea there. I guess Adobe is working on it. Maybe Figma too.
That's part of my point. You don't need to conceptualize something as an "agent" that goes off and does work on its own when the latency is less than 2 seconds.
Re: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
#19I do this every day! In fact, I built a new type of IDE around this (https://github.com/stravu/crystal) and I can never go back.
Re: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
#20There are quite a few products designed to help manage multiple agents at once. I'm trying out Conductor right now - https://conductor.build/ - it's a pretty slick macOS desktop app that handles running Claude Code within a GUI and uses Git worktrees to manage separate checkouts at the same time.
Check out Crystal, similar but open source https://github.com/stravu/crystal