Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle

Post by AdieuToLogic » Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 12:58 AM UTC

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favoboa wrote: post #105

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Thanks for the detailed critique. I think we might be talking past each other on the "super-manager" term. I defined it as a hybrid of EM + IC roles, not pure management, though I can see how that term invited misinterpretation. On the false dichotomy: fair point that I painted two archetypes without acknowledging the complexity between them or the many other archetypes. What I was trying to capture was a pattern I'v…

> But when you delegate work to a junior developer, you still need to understand the problem deeply to communicate it properly, and to recognize when their solution is wrong or incomplete You really don't. Most delegation work to a junior falls under the training guideline. Something trivial for you to execute, but will push the boundary of the junior. Also there's a lot of assumptions that you can make especially if…

Post by AdieuToLogic » Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 1:25 AM UTC

favoboa wrote: post #105

AdieuToLogic wrote: post #93

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> From what I've seen, the idea that AI is turning developers into super-managers is why some people struggle to adapt ... This "idea" is hyperbole. > Those who love to type their code and hate managing others tend to be more hesitant to adapt to this new reality. This is a false dichotomy and trivializes the real benefit of going through the process of authoring a change; how doing so increases one's knowledge of co…

Thanks for the detailed critique. I think we might be talking past each other on the "super-manager" term. I defined it as a hybrid of EM + IC roles, not pure management, though I can see how that term invited misinterpretation. On the false dichotomy: fair point that I painted two archetypes without acknowledging the complexity between them or the many other archetypes. What I was trying to capture was a pattern I'v…

Post by nkmnz » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 8:57 PM UTC

sarchertech wrote: post #131

nkmnz wrote: post #116

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While alchemy was mostly para-religious wishful thinking, stone masonry has a lot in common with what I want to express: it‘s the tinkering that is accessible to everyone who can lay their hands onto the tools. But I still think the age of nuclear revolution is a better comparison due to a couple of reasons, most importantly the number of very fast feedback loops. While it might have taken years to even build a new i…

The inherently chaotic nature of system makes stable results very difficult. Combine that with the non deterministic nature of all the major production models. Then you have the fact that new models are coming out every few months, and we have no objective metrics for measuring software quality. Oh and benchmarks for functional performance measurement tend to leak into training data. Put all those together and I’d be…

Post by aantix » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 4:16 AM UTC

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Not just visually organizing the terminals for the agents, but also keeping their environments and source trees straight, and merging them to the correct upstream branches, can quickly turn into a very complex co-ordination problem. This is exactly why we built Sculptor ( https://imbue.com/sculptor ). You don't need to manually juggle multiple terminal tabs because each Claude Code agent gets its own container with a…

I did try out sculptor. I like the idea of the pairing mode - the syncing to the main branch is quite helpful. A couple of items 1. As output comes back from Claude Code, I wish it were streamed to the screen in Sculptor. Seeing the text build up in realtime gives me the feeling of the agent being "alive". It's hard to describe - but I find it more delightful to see it streamed in realtime. 2. Add more hotkeys.