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ha! The default system prompt appears to give the main agent appropriate guidance about only using swarm mode when appropriate (same as entering itself into plan mode). You can further prompt it in your own CLAUDE.md to be even more resistant to using the mode if the task at hand isn't significant enough to warrant it.
I like opencode for the fact I can switch between build and plan mode just by pressing tab.
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OT: Your visual on "stacked PRs" instantly made me understand what a stacked PR is. Thank you! I had read about them before but for whatever reason it never clicked. Turns out I already work like this, but I use commits as "PRs in the stack" and I constantly try to keep them up to date and ordered by rebasing, which is a pain. Given my new insight with the way you displayed it, I had a chat with chatGPT and feel good…
Isn’t this just “Gitflow”? https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/...
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OT: Your visual on "stacked PRs" instantly made me understand what a stacked PR is. Thank you! I had read about them before but for whatever reason it never clicked. Turns out I already work like this, but I use commits as "PRs in the stack" and I constantly try to keep them up to date and ordered by rebasing, which is a pain. Given my new insight with the way you displayed it, I had a chat with chatGPT and feel good…
Isn’t this just “Gitflow”? https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/...
Stacking is meant to make development of non-trivial features more manageable and more likely to enter main safer and faster.
it's specific to each developer's workflow and wouldn't necessarily produce artifacts once merged into main (as gitflow seems to intentionally have a stance on)
This is just sub agents, built into Claude. You don’t need 300,000 line tmux abstractions written in go. You just tell Claude to do work in parallel with background sub agents. It helps to have a file for handing off the prompt, tracking progress, and reporting back. I also recommend constraining agents to their own worktrees. I am writing down the pattern here https://workforest.space while nearly everyone is buildi…
Claude already had subagents. This is a new mode for the main agent to be in (bespoke context oriented to delegation), combined with a team-oriented task system and a mailbox system for subagents to communicate with each other. All integrated into the harness in a way that plugins can't achieve.
This is just sub agents, built into Claude. You don’t need 300,000 line tmux abstractions written in go. You just tell Claude to do work in parallel with background sub agents. It helps to have a file for handing off the prompt, tracking progress, and reporting back. I also recommend constraining agents to their own worktrees. I am writing down the pattern here https://workforest.space while nearly everyone is buildi…
OT: Your visual on "stacked PRs" instantly made me understand what a stacked PR is. Thank you! I had read about them before but for whatever reason it never clicked. Turns out I already work like this, but I use commits as "PRs in the stack" and I constantly try to keep them up to date and ordered by rebasing, which is a pain. Given my new insight with the way you displayed it, I had a chat with chatGPT and feel good…
Do make sure you know how to reset the cache, in case you did a bad conflict resolution because it will keep biting you. Besides that caveat it's a must.
Looks like agent orchestrators provided by the foundation model providers will become a big theme in 2026. By wrapping it in terms that are already used in software development today like team leads, team members, etc. rather than inventing a completely new taxonomy of Polecats and Badgers, will help make it more successful and understandable.
Respectfully disagree. I think polecats are a reasonable antidote to overanthropomorphization.
I'd really like to see a regular poll on HN that keeps track of which AI coding agents are the most popular among this community, like the TIOBE Index for programming languages. Hard to keep up with all the changes and it would be nice to see a high level view of what people are using and how that might be shifting over time.
I'd really like to see a regular poll on HN that keeps track of which AI coding agents are the most popular among this community, like the TIOBE Index for programming languages. Hard to keep up with all the changes and it would be nice to see a high level view of what people are using and how that might be shifting over time.
I just started something like that, haven’t shared it widely yet, but here we go - happy if you participate: https://agentic-coding-survey.pages.dev/
I'd really like to see a regular poll on HN that keeps track of which AI coding agents are the most popular among this community, like the TIOBE Index for programming languages. Hard to keep up with all the changes and it would be nice to see a high level view of what people are using and how that might be shifting over time.
I just started something like that, haven’t shared it widely yet, but here we go - happy if you participate: https://agentic-coding-survey.pages.dev/