Derek Cheng

Derek Cheng

TonkotsuTonkotsu
Founder of Tonkotsu

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Manage an entire team of coding agents from a doc → https://www.tonkotsu.ai

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Maker History

  • Tonkotsu
    TonkotsuManage a team of coding agents from a doc
    Jan 2026
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    Joined Product HuntNovember 4th, 2025

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Claude by Anthropicp/claudeDerek Cheng

4h ago

How many Claude Codes do you run in parallel?

A couple weeks ago, Boris Cherny (the creator of Claude Code) shared a bunch of really useful tips on getting the most out of Claude Code. #1 at the top of the list: do more in parallel. He himself runs 10-15 Claude codes in parallel.

His advice and practice makes sense: coding agents give us the ability scale infinitely. At this point, the only real limiter is our own ability to manage all of these agents.

Tonkotsup/tonkotsuAJ

14d ago

Is a linux build on the horizon?

I just switched to OpenSUSE after windows kept messing with my touch pad drivers to the point where I had to reinstall them every day to somewhat fix the issue.
I've been a heavy Linux user on and off since 09 and have hopped all the distros.
I might try to run the Windows version of Tonkotsu with WINE or even Lutris, but I am unsure of how that will go.
I don't know if there will be a linux build. I know half of san fransisco is on mac so probably not lol.
but one can dream.

The Two Zoom Levels of Agents

Building @Tonkotsu has taught us many lessons in product design, with both the underlying technology and user behavior shifting rapidly.

One of the hardest but most critical lessons we ve learned is about calibrating the zoom level how close or far the user feels from the work. You can see examples of this play out across the industry:

  • Codex gets flak for going heads-down for too long compared to Claude. Users feel too zoomed out from the work.

  • By contrast, Cursor and IDEs are starting to feel too zoomed in. When the majority of code is written by agents, an editor-first UI is a misfit.

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