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Still misses entirely the way software is constructed. These whack-a-mole tools are pointless.

definitely understand the perspective. I feel like theres some dev work that completely requires me to be single threaded and just think hard, but there other modes where i can jump into whack-a-mole mode and try to work on a bunch of github issues in parallel, or sentry issues, or little ui bugs and the thinking goes more into reviewing plans and prs and i dont have to be as attentive to each individual session

There are individual tasks that can be “swarmed”.

Constructing software requires supervision and a continuous feedback loop from a discerning human.

agreed

Care to elaborate

Even with the strongest guardrails, no llm can be left unsupervised. And believing an llm can supervise itself is madness. For every agent you deploy as a “team” you will have multiplied diminishing returns.

I’ve iterated the process hundreds of times and even with a strong specification and tests, an llm can meet the spec and pass all the tests and still build the wrong thing.

This multi-agent workflow idea is worse than web3.

But it’s a YC thing so someone will make money.

I also don't believe in this multi-agent swarm thing. I just use Claude Code "manually" and this is still useful for that.

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