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Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

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I keep wondering how people accept a nights worth of agent activity. I feel 30 minutes of planning and 30 minutes of implementation in my solo side project's repo is too big to review. At minute 5, I may ask the AI to redo stuff even as its spitting out code.

I agree, but for small tasks - <20 lines that I can understand in a minute or two - perfect. Thinking about it - I have hundreds, if not thousands of tasks that I would like to do, improving pipelines, migrating from one tool to another, but never have time. The only question is - if I don't have time to do it, do I have time to prompt it?

Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

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post #81

I keep wondering how people accept a nights worth of agent activity. I feel 30 minutes of planning and 30 minutes of implementation in my solo side project's repo is too big to review. At minute 5, I may ask the AI to redo stuff even as its spitting out code.

Yeah the multi-agent workflow just hasn't been satisfying to me. The more chats I try to run at once, the more I got lost and overwhelmed. I trust Claude to implement a plan correctly after I've reviewed it, but if I don't review all of the plans, I will miss some small detail that it misunderstood and it'll be a pain to fix later. I'm like a 1-2 chats at a time kind of guy. I just don't see how I could keep my exact…

Same, on top of that multi-agent workflows just cost too much to make stopping and correcting them to feel worthwhile, compared to one or two manually managed chats

Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

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what is a table-stake?

The minimum required payment to play a gambling game, where the money up for grabs is called "stake". See also "raising the stakes". In context it means the minimum feature set to be considered for adoption.

very nice response idle_zealot, it's this level of human decency in comments that keeps me coming back to HN

Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

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People already barely reviewed code, most of it was imported libraries.

People seem to have rosy glasses about how great and vetted code was before AI coding took off the way it has, it was not great.

I’d say the increased scrutiny has merely exposed the difference in care between the different groups in the industry. Seems to explain pretty well why both sides are equally confounded by the other’s expectations.

Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

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post #76

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Most of the narrative is about how AI is writing all/most code, but I’d wager that the fraction of human reviewed code is approaching zero far faster than anyone is realizing or willing to admit.

People already barely reviewed code, most of it was imported libraries.

People keep saying this like it’s some meaningful point, but the reality is many people in different projects have a shared need for that code to work correctly, and there is a social proof involved in used open source libraries. That is why people look at downloads and dependent projects as heuristics of stability and correctness. That is not the case with (and cannot be obtained with) code authored by generative AI.

Re: Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

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I keep wondering how people accept a nights worth of agent activity. I feel 30 minutes of planning and 30 minutes of implementation in my solo side project's repo is too big to review. At minute 5, I may ask the AI to redo stuff even as its spitting out code.

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