Poll: How do you run your coding agents day to day?

Posted by ghempton on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:47AM
from the you-decide dept.

With all the noise out there, I'm curious how people actually do their coding every day in practice. Pick the setup you spend most of your agent time in. If yours doesn't fit, please describe it in the comments.

Disclosure: we built an orchestrator, codealong, before we even knew about some of the other options out there.

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Poll

Inside my editor (Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Zed, JetBrains) 2 votes

One terminal agent at a time (Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, pi) 2 votes

Several terminal agents in tabs or tmux, juggled by hand 1 vote

One desktop app (Claude or Codex) 2 votes

Several desktop apps side by side 1 vote

A dedicated orchestrator (herdr, Conductor, Superset) 1 vote

Cloud agents I hand tasks to (Devin, Codex Cloud, Cursor cloud agents) 1 vote

A software factory: issues in, PRs out (Mastra Factory, Gas Town, Fabro, homegrown) 1 vote

I don't use coding agents regularly 1 vote

Something else (comment) 1 vote

Re:Poll: How do you run your coding agents day to day? by ramon156 on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:00PM (#50305821)

I feel like software factories try too hard to streamline something that needs human attention, but I could be wrong.

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Re:Poll: How do you run your coding agents day to day? by christophilus on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:57AM (#50305783)

In a podman sandbox, using Niri to manage terminal instances.

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Re:Poll: How do you run your coding agents day to day? by blinkbat on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:52AM (#50305705)

several sessions in one or multiple instances of vscode.

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