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Ask HN: How many of you juggle multiple agent sessions at the same time?

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I hear a lot about the future of software engineering work being an engineer sitting with tons of sessions open and multitasking on many jira tickets all at once.

I am relatively junior but I feel like I see more people working on one ticket at a time, with maybe 2 sessions open.

Curious how many people are juggling 6+ agents and do many jira tickets and orchestrating all these sessions.

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kasey_junk
8 is about my limit but I never have less than 4.
atsaloli
I used Claude Fable to tweak my tmux config to allow me to work on multiple issues. It lists my various Claude sessions and the status of each (so I can see which ones are working versus waiting for permissions / choice / finished their turn and are waiting for me). I can also see my open PRs including when PRs get approved; as well as some Jira context.

I usually limit # of concurrent tmux windows 15 (per Kanban limit of Work In Progress concept) but I've been known to up that to 30 when on-call.

satvikpendem
Not sure what there is to orchestrate, Claude Code at least the desktop app allows you to run multiple sessions, just send each agent a Jira ticket and off it goes.
Chyzwar
3-5 that are active and another 2-4 waiting for my attention or some kind of experiment.
Transformanshen
I sometimes keep 4-5 active sessions going plus a couple waiting in the queue. Can't say it's always convenient. I don't know about others but I sometimes forget which session is doing what and end up getting confused.
top_rooster
Have you ever tried any of those ADEs / Agent orchestrators? I have considered downloading a few, tried Kepler for a bit, but I am unsure if I am maybe trying to search for a tool I don't actually need.
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hoangnnguyen
Hi, I’m the creator of AI DevKit. Problem that you are facing is one of the thing made me build this.

Once you have 4–5 active agent sessions, the bottleneck becomes remembering who is doing what and jumping between them.

ai-devkit gives each agent a name, lets you see and navigate active sessions from one place, agents can communicate with each other, search sessions that you already completed. I also added remote control so I can check or redirect sessions without constantly switching terminals.

If you have time or chance to try it out, I would love to know what you think.