Social Software Creation

3 Notion Devs Use a Kanban To Orchestrate Coding Agents

The video above has been living rent free in my head for a few weeks. In it, three people sit around a task board and build a game together. I watched it late one night and couldn't help but giggle. It reminded me of being a teenager, crowded around one computer with my friends, taking turns logging into chat rooms and clicking through different websites. It reminded me of a time when a computer could be co-used.

Compare that to now: I am writing some of the most complex software I've ever written, but the only person who holds its mental model is me. It's ironic that we finally have the ability for anyone to generate code but we've lost the platforms, like Glitch, that made coding a place you went to hang out with friends.

Projects like the video give me hope for a different shape and different worlds. Where coding agents can make software creation social again. The alternatives are already being built: Symphony, Gas City, the Dark Factory. Orchestration in the name of optimization instead of community and fun. Don't you want to hang out on the internet and jam together again?