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I'm just extremely tired of non-technical people trying to tell me how to do my job, what the state-of-the-art is, that I can implement their non-existent specs faster, or that software development is just about the ideas not implementation because we have swarms of clankers available.

> herdr is by far the most polished tool in its category.

Can't speak to this, but I like that I didn't feel like I needed to try an alternative. It just did exactly what I needed it to do.

That said - I couldn't find a way to move a pane to a new tab. I can swap panes within a single pane (select -> right click -> swap with focused pane), but I can't find a way to do it between tabs. Maybe it's a skill issue. Anyone have any ideas?

I've been trialing this for the last few hours. It was quite slow at first, but now I'm getting around 300-400tps. Still nowhere near 1000tps, but it's still incredibly fast compared to what I'm used to with other models. It's quite capable as well. I asked it to present strategies for training an AI to play fighting games and it gave quite well-reasoned output. It searched the existing my existing knowledge base for details about the game's internals, including record/playback, and it's own general knowledge about the game is played. It wasn't sycophantic about my opinions either - it challenged me appropriately.

I think they might have a really decent model if they can deliver their advertised speeds at scale at reasonable prices. A tiered approach could work well.

I suspect that we may soon be seeing a modern version of VHS vs Betamax. Betamax was better quality, but VHS beat it in virtually every other metric that mattered to most consumers.

(yes, I'm aware the analogy isn't perfect for many reasons)

My current experiment is running a Chief of Staff pattern within herdr, nothing too fancy. You should be able to find quite a few resources on the net.

I've all but given up on these types of approaches. Models will often just ignore your process instructions at the most inopportune moments. For work, I've resorted to mostly just using single agents for smallish pieces of work that I orchestrate myself. I treat it as a tool, with me being the craftsman.

Everyone is pushing Agent Fleets and Swarms, and I'm sure that there are many success stories, but from our internal experiments many devs don't see any speed advantage for complex work. Here's what one of them told us recently: "The speed advantage is offset by the manual refactoring work. The code is 'correct', but it's just not what any of us would have written".

Now one could argue that you could just ignore the code if it's working (that is in fact what Ex Co instructed us to do) and just keep running these fleets if the end result "works", but I'm not fully convinced this will end well in the long term.

Then again, I'm stuck with decades of legacy code and systems that noone understands that were introduced by humans...

Then I guess all that it changes is that my proposed setup gets even better?

I've been using DS v4.1 Flash daily for nearly a month now on Agent Swarm experiments. I've tested it against GLM-5.3-flash and Opus 5.5. DS 4.1 comes out tops for me. Opus 5.5 is still the smartest, but DS 4.1's speed and price more than make up for the "intelligence" gap. I've ran Chief/Builder/Reviewer swarms autonomously for multiple days. I think my new workflow is going to have DS 4.1 Flash do all the engineering and just have Opus review its work. 4.1 Flash really is a very impressive model. Kudos to the Deepseek team.

I use it at work. On Windows it also launches a new console window every it executes (?) a command. You should definitely disabled this using --no-daemon.

I don't know how and why they ruined this CLI with needless "features". It was perfectly usable two weeks ago.

I still use GPT 5.5 daily. It doesn't seem to have this problem. It just gives me a concise summary and gets to work.

I tried really hard to get senior management to understand this where I work. Yes, AI is an accelerator, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to accelerate you in the "right" direction.