The Herder’s Dilemma: Why Running 10 AI Agents at Once Beats Babysitting One
AI coding assistants are supposed to save time, but managing them one-by-one creates a new bottleneck: you. The solution is to run multiple agents in parallel using Git worktrees, shifting your role from driver to herder. This article explains why serial prompting is broken and how parallel agent orchestration is the future of software development.