Here's my question:

if agents continue to get better with RL, what is future proof about this environment or UI?

I think we all know that managing 5-10 agents ... is not pretty. Are we really landing good PRs with 100% cognitive focus from 5-10 agents? Chances are, I'm making mistakes (and I assume other humans are too)? Why not 1 agent managing 5-10 agents for you? And so on?

Most of the development loop is in bash ... so as long as agents get better at using bash (amongst other things), what happens to this in 6 months?

I don't think this is operating at a higher-level of abstraction if agents themselves can coordinate agents across worktrees, etc.

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onecommit 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Interesting thoughts - thank you! And directionally agree - given that agents are becoming ever better, they'll take more and more of the orchestration on themselves. Still, we believe that developers need an interface to interact with these agents; see their status and review / test their work. Emdash is our approach for building this interface of the future - the ADE :)

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blumomo 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> Still, we believe that developers need an interface to interact with these agents;

CLIs like claude code equally improve over time. tmux helps running remote sessions like there were local.

Why should we invest long time into your „ADE“, really?

> see their status and review / test their work

Won’t that be addressed eventually by the CLIs themselves?

Maybe you’re betting on being purchased by one of the agentic coding providers given your tool has long term value on its own?

	▲	sothatsit 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		People use UIs for git despite it working so well in the terminal... Many people I knew at uni doing computer science wouldn’t even know what tmux is. I would bet that the demand for these types of UIs is going to be a lot bigger than the demand for CLI tools like Claude Code. People already rave about cowork and the new codex UI. This falls into the same category.

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nemooperans 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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