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Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

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Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

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Excited to try this out. I've seen a lot of working systems on my own computer that share files to talk between different Claude Code agents and I think this could work similarly to that.

(i thought gas town was satire? people in comments here seem to be saying that gas town also had multi-agent file sharing for work tracking)

Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

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Seems similar to Gas Town

yeah, seems like a much simpler design though (i.e. only seems like one 'special/leader' agent, and the rest are all workers vs gastown having something like 8 different roles mayor, polecat, witnesses, etc). Wonder how they compare?

i would have to imagine the gastown design isn't optimal though? why 8, and why does there need to multiple hops of agent communications before two arbitrary agents communicate with each other as opposed to single shared filespace?

Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

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Seems similar to Gas Town

>"Seems similar to Gas Town"

I love that we are in this world where the crazy mad scientists are out there showing the way that the rest of us will end up at, but ahead of time and a bit rough around the edges, because all of this is so new and unprecedented. Watching these wholly new abstractions be discovered and converged upon in real time is the most exciting thing I've seen in my career.

Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

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People often compare working with AI agents to being something like a project manager. I've been a project manager for years. I still work on some code myself, but most of it is done by the rest of the team. On one hand, I have more bandwidth to think about how the overall application is serving the users, how the various pieces of the application fit together, overall consistency, etc. I think this is a useful role.…

I definitely think what you're losing is extremely important, and can't be compensated with LLMs once its gone.

Back when automatic piano players came out, if all the world's best piano players stopped playing and mostly just composing/writing music instead, would the quality of the music have increased or decreased. I think the latter.

Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

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I’m looking for something like this, with opus in the driver seat, but the subagents should be using different LLMs, such as Gemini or Codex. Anyone know if such a tool? just-every/code almost does this, but the lead/orchestrator is always codex, which feels too slow compared to opus or Gemini.

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People often compare working with AI agents to being something like a project manager. I've been a project manager for years. I still work on some code myself, but most of it is done by the rest of the team. On one hand, I have more bandwidth to think about how the overall application is serving the users, how the various pieces of the application fit together, overall consistency, etc. I think this is a useful role.…

I do think there’s a real risk of Brain Atrophy when you rely on AI coding tools for everything and while learning something new. About a year ago, I dealt with this problem by using Neovim and having shortcuts like below to easily toggle GitHub Copilot on/off. Now that AI is baked into almost every part of the toolchain in VSCode, Cursor, ClaudeCode, Intellij, I don't know how the newer engineers will learn without AI assistance.

Re: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

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>I'd bet anything these new models / agentic-tools are designed to optimize for token consumption.

You would think, but Claude Code has gotten incredibly more efficient over time. They are doing so much dogfooding with these things at this point that it makes more sense to optimize.

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