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Got to talk at @aidotengineer.bsky.social conf last week about the need for collaborative AI engineering. All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment problems in the process. We have no good tools for...

...communication that deeply integrate with coding agents Current versions of Github, Linear, Slack, etc. were built for a previous era of development. They're too isolated from agentic coding tools. Trying to duct tape coding agents onto them isn't working. Coding agents and realtime...

It's multiplayer chats, plus agents, and everyone working in sandboxed vms so you're all sharing the same code and context. Prompt and code together, in real time. You're all connected to the same computer. You can all see the same outputs. No one is stashing work and switching git branches.

Plans are also shared and editable as a team in real time. Because it is kind of insane to make elaborate plans with your coding agent alone in your terminal without getting anyone else's input. And then send it off to be implemented without checking if it's any good.

You can read about why we built this and see lots more demos in the talk slides and transcript: maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment We're starting to roll this out to GitHub folks so we can squash bugs / make it less hacky. Then we'll do a public technical preview - there's a signup form in the link

this is v good, but what if you really need branching/backtracking etc?

Not sure I understand - each session here is its own branch. And you can make forks off of each branch. Or roll back to a previous commit. It's all just git under the hood. Or did you mean something else?