alt Hacker News> does not imply working on multiple features at one time.
How can multiple parallel agents some local and some in the cloud be working on a single task?
How can:
> All local and cloud agents appear in the sidebar, including the ones you kick off from mobile, web, desktop, Slack, GitHub, and Linear. (From the announcement, under “Run many agents in parallel”)
…be working on the same task?
Subagents are different, but the OP is not confused about what cursor is pushing, and it is not what you describe.
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They are confused in the word they use: the article on what Cursor is pushing does not, according to ^F, mention "swarm" at all. Since we have a word for multiple agents working on one task, it is probably best not to use that word if you are referring to multiple agents working on multiple tasks, right?
I bring it up not to be pedantic, but because if you think it implies multi-tasking and dismiss it, you are missing out on it's ability to help in single-tasking.
Subagents are isolated context windows, which means they cannot get polluted as easily with garbage from the main thread. You can have multiple of them running in parallel doing their own separate things in service of whatever your own “brain thread”… it’s handy because one might be exploring some aspect of what you are working on while another is looking at it from a different perspective.
I think the people doing multiple brain threads at once are doing that because the damn tools are so fucking slow. Give it little while and I’m sure these things will take significantly less time to generate tokens. So much so that brand new bottlenecks will open up…
Same way a developer and designer can work on the same feature during the same week? Or two developers working on the same feature during the same week. They can have a common api contract and then one builds the frontend and the other works on the backend.