> I find myself to be a huge bottleneck, having to do technical design and design reviews, to make sure they're actually working on the right things.

I find this depends on the LLMs being used and the person using them and the problems being solved.

Like, Fable can be sent off to do some big thing for a long while and I find myself getting bored and move over to push on some other thing. Or, while reading a paper I have a string of follow up questions and ideas and launch them via web or CLI agent. Or I bounce between multiple chores in different packages, each of which is fast for an LLM and a low cognitive burden for me. Then other times, something needs my full, ongoing and serial attention where the LLM turn is only a minor element. I'll use the brief LLM interludes to get up, walk around a bit, stretch and think.

As for Herdr, it seems nice when I tried it a few weeks ago. But, I'm surprised it is getting so much attention (kudos). Like many people, I've developed more than one work-alike before Herdr hit the scene. They were based on tmux which I have concluded I simply detest. In the end, I made a little agent hook script that speaks to Kitty terminal and that plus Kitty and a stable SSH persistent connection gives 80% of what I was looking for. I do still like the "control panel" aspect of my past and herdr's tries. Adding that would get me another 10%.