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cofounder of Superset(X26) and Adam(W25)

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If you want to do that you mine as well give Superset a try, we've put a lot of time into giving a good terminal experience, with baked in notifications and a daemon that runs in the background so your terminal sessions dont die when the app updates or closes.

We technically have a linux build, but dont maintain it as well as mac. We are built on electron so eventually we want to more heavily support linux and windows but we dont currently have anyone on the team that daily drives linux and windows the maintenance overhead is a bit too high. Once we do have someone on the team driving linux/windows we'll have broader publicized support for all platforms.

And on the worktree note, I find when working in a worktree the agent has a much easier time solving merge conflicts and as the number of feature branches scale and it just makes it so i dont have to worry about conflicts while working on a feature.

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

for clarification we're less of a agent swarm tool, and more of a launch a bunch of independent agents in isolated environments and have some nice UX to manage them too. I also havent had as much luck with agent swarms or ralph loops, but i'm sure the laps will improve them with time

yeah there is a lot of overlap, we are more terminal first than conductor so you can do can use any cli agent you want. We have a lot more quality of life features around the terminal like notifications, and some things similar to tmux where if you kill the app or update your sessions stay alive and running. We also recently released remote workspaces so you can setup cloud workspaces for your agents. Id say if you like the chat experience conductor is still a bit more polished, we'll get to that level of polish soon, but if you care more about the terminal and cloud and more new integrations we are shipping superset is better.

yeah i think theres a lot of ux conventions that are starting to get figured out, but we do want to be different. At least right now most dont well support remote workspace, issue tracking, or review. I bet most of the current ux patterns will look very different in a year

If you start leaning more on coding agents, you quickly realize there are a lot of 2–30 minute windows where you’re just waiting for an agent to implement something or finish a review. In those pockets I generally spinning up small tasks or running a few parallel experiments with different models or approaches. Once you’re juggling multiple threads having isolated working environments becomes pretty essential. We're just trying to make the environment management and that whole workflow much less of a headache. But I don't think this is the best workflow for everyone its just what we've been seeing more people converge towards.

After setting up catnip it seems pretty sweet. The major difference is they are running as a cloud sandbox and we are currently running as a local terminal. Say you don’t want to use any worktrees or do stuff in parallel superset still works as a classic terminal. Eventually we plan on adding cloud workspaces like catnip tho