By mid-March I had fifteen Ghostty terminals open. Each one running Claude Code, each one tied to a different project, each one shouting silently for attention from behind the next tab. I had stopped knowing which session was on which branch. I had stopped knowing how many PRs I had open. A scroll through ~/dev told me there were nine repos with uncommitted work and I could not have told you what the work was. Then something I read on X tipped me over, and that evening I started a new repo called pewpew. I thought I was building a tool. Two months later I suspect I was building something else. The spectrum There is a spectrum that nobody talks about explicitly, even though everyone doing agentic coding at scale is somewhere on it. At the left end is the way most people start: one Claude Code in one terminal, you drive, you see. It scales as far as your attention does, which is to one agent. A step right and you are running several agents in several terminals. You are still driving but…
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