How one dev keeps 3 AI agents busy in parallel with email-length prompts
granawkins · x · 2026-09-12
Replying to complaints about focus loss in AI coding, granawkins describes writing prompts like emails from a decade ago—minutes of research plus minutes of writing each—while keeping 3 agents working in parallel. The two keys: structuring 3 non-conflicting projects in one codebase, and having an agent that can take a 5-paragraph prompt and do 30 minutes of useful work.
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