Herdr and the Meta-harness

I see a lot of discussion around “TUI vs. GUI” for coding agents. This discussion is often of the form: “the more I use Claude Code/Codex/Pi, the more I’ve outgrown the TUI and want to use a GUI app”. The comment that nudged me to write this is in this recent HN discussion: I used to use ChatGPT/Claude in the TUI up until like 3 months ago, but my usage of LLMs has exploded - many sessions across many projects. I feel like I outgrew the TUI and now I’m using ChatGPT/Claude desktop. VS Code has become a code review tool and place where I manage git if need be. […] Usually a TUI would be open in VS Code and scoped to whatever repo I’m working with so 10 projects, 10 VS Code instances open, not super scalable. With the GUI desktop app it’s one app, and I can start sessions in an repo and switch between them easily, no need to open VS Code for each. I don’t see what could make me want to go back to using a TUI. I can sympathize with the pull away from TUIs. Until I started using Herdr, I…

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