Steve Yegge Asks: Which IDE Can Orchestrate 10-20+ AI Agents at Once
On September 11, well-known programmer Steve Yegge posed a practical question to heavy AI users on X: what "agentic IDE" do people use today to multiplex 10-20 or even more coding agents at once? He named Superlogical, Herdr, GitHub/Bitbucket and other candidate tools, and joked that while he's an Emacs user, he doesn't think Emacs is worth recommending. The question sparked multiple rounds of reposts and discussion in the community.
Confirmed
- The post came from Steve Yegge on 09-11 and was subsequently amplified by many others.
- His explicitly listed candidates included Superlogical, Herdr, GitHub/Bitbucket, and as an Emacs user he self-deprecatingly declined to recommend Emacs.
- Among the replies, Garry Tan recommended Conductor Cloud.
- Replier doodlestein proposed combining ntm with tmux to orchestrate dozens of agents, a setup that drew attention.
Why it matters
- "Orchestrating 10-20+ agents simultaneously" signals a shift in AI-assisted programming from single-agent conversations to parallel multi-agent orchestration, and traditional IDE designs may not support this workflow.
- With a famous developer and a YC-president-level investor (Garry Tan) personally recommending tools, multi-agent development environments have clearly become a new battleground in AI coding tools.
2026-09-11 ~ 2026-09-12 · 5 related posts
Primary sources
- [source] Steve Yegge asks: what IDE do you use to multiplex 10-20+ coding agents? — Steve_Yegge · 2026-09-11
- [source] Steve Yegge asks for agentic IDEs; ntm + tmux skills orchestrate 10-20 agent swarms — doodlestein · 2026-09-12
- [source] Steve Yegge asks how to multiplex 10-20 coding agents; Garry Tan recommends Conductor Cloud — garrytan · 2026-09-12