Fantastic writeup on Gas Town's first-week chaos. The point about simplicity beating power really resonates, especially your observation that worktree isolation is the right primitive but you dont need ten abstraction layers on top. I've been down a similar rabbit hole with over-engineered dev tooling where I spent more time being the tools sysadmin than actualy shipping features.
The "tools sysadmin" trap is real. I had the same realization — I was spending more time configuring the agent orchestrator than the agents were spending writing code. The moment I stripped it back to just git worktrees + tmux, everything clicked. Sometimes the best dev tool is the one you don't have to think about.
Fantastic writeup on Gas Town's first-week chaos. The point about simplicity beating power really resonates, especially your observation that worktree isolation is the right primitive but you dont need ten abstraction layers on top. I've been down a similar rabbit hole with over-engineered dev tooling where I spent more time being the tools sysadmin than actualy shipping features.
What do you use now btw?
The "tools sysadmin" trap is real. I had the same realization — I was spending more time configuring the agent orchestrator than the agents were spending writing code. The moment I stripped it back to just git worktrees + tmux, everything clicked. Sometimes the best dev tool is the one you don't have to think about.