"Scribes coding" meme: parallel Claude agents likened to Mesopotamian scribes
jia_seed · x · 2026-10-16
riffing on Danielle Fong's thread, jiaseed jokes that running Claude as a notetaker is like being a scribe to a Mesopotamian ruler in 3500 BCE — "scribe coding" — while running 3 background agents in parallel is "tribe coding," like working as a family/tribe.
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