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

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

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Post by kesor »

Originally the word "Kanban" was used by Toyota to describe their card system that helped them achieve several important things, one of them was to NOT work on too many things at once. The other one was to visualize the work. And in general Kanban was used to manage the flow of work so that defects don't get through.

This tool on the other hand is all about "jam as much work as you can come up with into being created in parallel". Obviously there is no managing of any flow of quality outputs, and no limiting of any work because you just shove everything into the agent and burn tokens like crazy.

Calling this a "Kanban" really irks me ... its like blasphemy or something.

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

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Post by JodieBenitez »

aitchnyu wrote: post #30

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 never review anything writtend by codex in my pet projects. It works or it doesn't and then I prompt again. I can see how it's easy to multiply agents in this case.

Now when using it for my job... that's a totally different story: I review all the changes, so a single chat session with an agent can lead to a whole day of review. And it's great, sometimes the agent uses patterns and functions I don't know, so I learn a lot.

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

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Post by npodbielski »

> play nice with tools you already use: codex, Claude, cusrsor, github, sqlite, electron

I do not use any of those.

Also why all of those vibe coded websites are so slow on mobile.

Also I do not understand why Software Developer people are work so hard to make themselves obsolete. Why? You guys do not enjoy eating and having place to sleep?

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

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Post by bobjordan »

noduerme wrote: post #117
londons_explore wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very true. Last year I at least glanced at every line of AI generated code. Now if some AI makes a 10k line program for some one-off tasks, I run the program, glance only over the output, and move on.

Especially if you're having an LLM write non-interactive scripts to calculate complex things from large datasets, glancing at the output is not enough to know if the output is remotely accurate (unless the output is so trivial you could literally do it in your head). Case in point: I recently asked an LLM to write a pile of code to compile historical baseball stats to test betting success against the results of my ha…

Code needs tested. I'm glad that the bar of entry has been lowered but now we just have a huge amount of people that haven't yet learned anything about how to test and verify that the code meets the expected requirements.
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