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Derek Cheng

5d ago

Managing Unreliable Compilers

There s a lot of discussion on X and other places about the future of software development. As with many things in life, the reality is both complex and in the middle of the extreme viewpoints. What we re seeing at Tonkotsu:

  • Agents are fast and powerful, but make mistakes. They can t operate unsupervised. We think they re like unreliable compilers.

  • That means developers are as critical as ever, but their role shifts to being managers of coding agents.

  • This transformation means developers need to be focused on planning and verification, while delegating coding. The role has become barbell-shaped, and the industry needs new tools and workflows to accommodate this.

More here https://blog.tonkotsu.ai/p/manag...

AJ

4d ago

What type of people will flock to Tonkotsu?

I've been trying it out and am highly impressed, and becoming aware of just how tonkotsu is built around a deeply simple concept.
Your document is your foundation, and you build from there. It should read like a notebook that also has every feature and its tasks attached. It's like if Jupyter or Colab were used for project management.
Tonkotsu is perfect for people who work in blocks or steps, for those who break down a problem into small er ones and keep their focus on the goal. Chart course on paper, engrave your goals in stone.
How do you use tonkotsu?

Do you consider yourself to be this sort of person?

And what's your favorite ramen?

Derek Cheng

9d ago

Thanks for #1 - here's what's next

Hey everyone - we re tremendously grateful for our fantastic launch yesterday, ending at #1 for the day. Thank you all for your support!

I started Tonkotsu because I saw a huge opportunity for a complete rethink of AI coding not just incremental adjustments to established tools and workflows. Having managed teams of hundreds of engineers at Meta, Microsoft, and Atlassian, it s been fascinating to me to find that the role of the developer has shifted overnight: you're now the manager of a team of agents. We're building Tonkotsu to help you succeed in that new role.

fmerian

10d ago

Tonkotsu - Manage a team of coding agents from a doc

Tonkotsu is a fresh approach: a clean, focused GUI that lets you manage a team of coding agents from a doc. FREE during our early access program.