Testing Multi-Agent Coding Tools: Do Coordination Costs Eat the Gains?
leena_xander · reddit · 2026-08-23
The author explores the practicality and efficiency of running 3-5 coding agents simultaneously. Finding themselves the bottleneck while managing Claude Code and Codex—checking for conflicts and changes—they tested tools like Conductor (visual layout but uncoordinated), Coldtea (enables agent-to-agent communication and peer review), and tmux. The author questions if there is a ceiling where coordination costs negate output gains, effectively turning the developer into a "project manager for robots."
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