Original Reddit post

Disclosure up front…i’m Mike, cofounder of DevSwarm. We shipped DevSwarm 2.0 yesterday and I think a lot about where AI-agent coding is going. I’ve been using Claude Code heavily for months (multiple Max plans, 14+ hour days), and the parallel workflow across branches or worktrees is real. The issue is what happens after you use it for real work. Beyond a few sessions, the bottleneck isn’t the model but the coordination and sprawl: terminals everywhere editor windows everywhere which agent is on which branch what is ready for unblocking I also keep seeing a related pattern here: a single long session is great until context rot sets in, then people split into multiple smaller sessions, then managing all of them becomes its own issue. DevSwarm is how we solved that for ourselves. The abstraction is simple: workspace equals branch. Each workspace runs its own agent session(s) and keeps state visible. In 2.0 we embedded a full VS Code IDE in each workspace, so editing, terminals, diffs, and git controls stay in one window while you jump between parallel branches. Who this is for: people running 2+ parallel Claude Code sessions and feeling the coordination overhead. Cost and relationship: I helped build DevSwarm and there’s a fully functional Free tier that is (non-contextual) ad-supported. Pro is $8/month and Team is $18/month. All in all, I am posting this because I want blunt feedback from people who also actually do parallel workflows: What breaks first for you past 2 parallel sessions? What would you need for this to be production-grade? Tests, debugging, extensions, PR flow? If anyone wants to see what we built, I will drop a link in a comment. submitted by /u/mikebiglan

Originally posted by u/mikebiglan on r/ClaudeCode