While increasingly capable AI coding agents have taken a lot of the grunt work out of coding, they've also introduced a bunch of new problems. Beyond increasing the amount of vibe-coded slop you'll see everywhere and fueling fears that AI is going to replace developers, there's another problem that doesn't get talked about nearly enough: managing the very tools doing the coding for you.

It's like being a team lead with a bunch of developers working on different parts of a project. Except, instead of managing people, you're managing AI agents, each with its own workflow, quirks, and way of doing things. When you're running multiple agents in parallel, keeping track of what each one is doing and jumping between terminal tabs is no fun.…