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EMBRACING THE PARALLEL CODING AGENT LIFESTYLE

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Coding agent software is still really new. Models have only really become good enough to drive them in the past few months. One of the ways to use this software is to run multiple coding agents at once, sometimes in the same repo and against multiple checkouts or git work trees. This approach increases the number of tasks that can be fired off in parallel without adding too much cognitive overhead. This post discusses patterns for applying parallel agents effectively.