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Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle

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159 points jbredeche | 2 comments | 06 Oct 25 10:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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WhyOhWhyQ ◴[09 Oct 25 20:27 UTC] No.45532684[source]▶
I can't seem to get myself to focus when one of these things is running. I transition into low effort mode. Because of this I've decided to have my good hours of the day LLM free, and then in my crappy hours I'll have one of these running.
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1. angelmm ◴[10 Oct 25 08:24 UTC] No.45536515[source]▶
This is why I uninstalled Cursor and moving to the terminal with Claude Code. I felt I had more control to reduce the noise from LLMs. Before, I noticed that some hours were just wasted looking at the model output and iterating.

Not sure if I improved using agents over time, or just having it in a separate window forces you to use them only when you need. Having it in the IDE seems the "natural" way to start something and now you are trapped in a conversation with the LLM.

Now, my setup is:

- VSCode (without copilot) / Helix

- Claude (active coding)

- Rover (background agent coding). Note I'm a Rover developer

And I feel more productive and less exhausted.

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2. threecheese ◴[10 Oct 25 15:08 UTC] No.45539927[source]▶
Why Helix specifically, besides the fact that it’s cool? I’m looking for a reason to try it, but the value props seem really far down the list of usability issues that are important to me.