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Re:Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era by ChicagoDave on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:07PM (#48243106)
Still misses entirely the way software is constructed. These whack-a-mole tools are pointless.
Re:Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era by dbbk on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:32PM (#48243280)
Care to elaborate
Re:Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era by ChicagoDave on Friday May 22, 2026 @10:15PM (#48243891)
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.

Re:Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era by dbbk on Saturday May 23, 2026 @05:12AM (#48246089)
I also don't believe in this multi-agent swarm thing. I just use Claude Code "manually" and this is still useful for that.
Re:Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era by avipeltz on Friday May 22, 2026 @10:19PM (#48243914)
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
Re:Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era by ChicagoDave on Saturday May 23, 2026 @04:30AM (#48245887)
There are individual tasks that can be “swarmed”.

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

Re:Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era by avipeltz on Saturday May 23, 2026 @04:19PM (#48251078)
agreed