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Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by archonis »

aruggirello wrote: post #48
chaicodes wrote: post #18

Hey guys, thanks for putting it here, I am Chaitanya I built Munder Difflin, I am here to answer all your questions(except nylonstrung). For people who haven't tried it: Munder Difflin is a local multi-agent harness that wraps around your existing claude code and codex subscriptions(we literally support almost all harnesses/coding agents). Simulations are deterministic, they do not consume tokens, infact most of the…

I love it!!! But please, change that "GOD orchestrator" label, as a believer, I find it profane and offensive.

Everyone is a believer.

What exactly do you believe and why should anyone accomodate it?

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by natpalmer1776 »

aruggirello wrote: post #48
chaicodes wrote: post #18

Hey guys, thanks for putting it here, I am Chaitanya I built Munder Difflin, I am here to answer all your questions(except nylonstrung). For people who haven't tried it: Munder Difflin is a local multi-agent harness that wraps around your existing claude code and codex subscriptions(we literally support almost all harnesses/coding agents). Simulations are deterministic, they do not consume tokens, infact most of the…

I love it!!! But please, change that "GOD orchestrator" label, as a believer, I find it profane and offensive.

To get past the uh… man I really lack the words to describe the responses that you’ve already received, but I guess to avoid them going forward, I would re-label the point your making as being more culturally sensitive. It’s not asking people to accommodate your faith, rather your culture. It removes the convicting tone and imposition of your beliefs that others wish to derive from your request and instead communicates a desire for representation that isn’t “mandated” but appreciated.

It probably won’t prevent people from getting worked up over the request but it sheds a lot of potential hate and ammunition.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by uproarchat »

chaicodes wrote: post #18

Hey guys, thanks for putting it here, I am Chaitanya I built Munder Difflin, I am here to answer all your questions(except nylonstrung). For people who haven't tried it: Munder Difflin is a local multi-agent harness that wraps around your existing claude code and codex subscriptions(we literally support almost all harnesses/coding agents). Simulations are deterministic, they do not consume tokens, infact most of the…

I don't want to contact you for pricing.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by internet101010 »

joshstrange wrote: post #63

Ok, I've been running it for a couple hours and below are my thoughts. Please note that I do find it fascinating even if most of what I'm about to say is complaining about the parts I like less. - Pipelines, not agents. Roles, not agents. I really don't like the idea of defined agents with their own prompt. I want to define roles and spin up N agents with that role. Furthermore I want pipelines "Plan -> Review Plan -…

I think you and I are cut from the same cloth. Role-based pipelines and coordination with scoped permissions generated at runtime and the ability to communicate is the end game in my opinion, for now at least. Orchestration finally clicked with me when I tried out Gas Town six months ago and I immediately created a system to offload it to the cloud by using a combination of GCP CloudRun + Firestore (for temp file storage and to fill role of beads). Right when I finished ironing out the kinks Anthropic laid down the hammer on how users can use subscriptions and I abandoned it.

Now I am using custom pipeline/messaging control plane that spawns microvms with scoped creds minted at runtime. I had to make my own control plane specifically because everyone is focused on agents with personalities rather than roles and pods of workers. I like everything about Buzz except for that.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by alentred »

With so many AI product launches, I don't even understand anymore what's serious and what's a joke.

Collectively many recent product launches look like we are building a big lab to study sociology using British humour, uttering absurdities with a serious look and then evaluating what sticks.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by qarl2 »

bot403 wrote: post #19
chaicodes wrote: post #18

Hey guys, thanks for putting it here, I am Chaitanya I built Munder Difflin, I am here to answer all your questions(except nylonstrung). For people who haven't tried it: Munder Difflin is a local multi-agent harness that wraps around your existing claude code and codex subscriptions(we literally support almost all harnesses/coding agents). Simulations are deterministic, they do not consume tokens, infact most of the…

It's interesting but It was hard to tell from a quick read if this was a fun game with LLMs or a productivity tool. You could stand to make that more clear.

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Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Post by joshstrange »

internet101010 wrote: post #97
joshstrange wrote: post #63

Ok, I've been running it for a couple hours and below are my thoughts. Please note that I do find it fascinating even if most of what I'm about to say is complaining about the parts I like less. - Pipelines, not agents. Roles, not agents. I really don't like the idea of defined agents with their own prompt. I want to define roles and spin up N agents with that role. Furthermore I want pipelines "Plan -> Review Plan -…

I think you and I are cut from the same cloth. Role-based pipelines and coordination with scoped permissions generated at runtime and the ability to communicate is the end game in my opinion, for now at least. Orchestration finally clicked with me when I tried out Gas Town six months ago and I immediately created a system to offload it to the cloud by using a combination of GCP CloudRun + Firestore (for temp file sto…

I'm slowly inching towards my own control plane because my skill-based workflows (not Claude Code Workflows) are brittle but still work better than anything else I've tried. Enforcing the pipeline has been mostly successful but I'd greatly prefer something more structured.

I've been dipping my toes into the waters of higher-level orchestration for a while now but keep scurrying back to driving CC mostly directly. Any extra layers I've added have just caused too much waste (time & tokens) or otherwise produced inconsistent results. I want to "live" in the decision making space. I want to be consulted for decisions (with context provided so I can context-switch easier), I want to review plans, I want to review the actual UI (when there is any), and I want to be able to easily inject new ideas/tickets into the machine (and probably so way to adjust issue priority).

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