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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...

...multiplayer humans all have to be in the same workspace. At @githubnext.com we've made a new research prototype called "Ace" in this direction It's like Slack, Github, Claude/Copilot, and a bunch of sandboxed cloud computers had a baby. Some demos:

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.

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