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:fire: Very first *Background coding agents in Android Studio / IntelliJ*

*<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuF2ajuxCOw&ab_channel=Kevin|1 min demo of firebender rebuilding a screen in parallel>*

Don’t wait on a single coding agent - paste your Jira tickets one by one and watch Firebender tackle them all in parallel.

These agents:
- Live in lightweight local workspaces, no cloud setup needed
- Run in parallel, can solve multiple tasks at once
- Are incredibly intelligent, using a similar architecture to Claude Code

if this is something you want to try here are the docs:
• <https://docs.firebender.com/get-started/install#installing-firebender|quick start (30 seconds)> 
• ways to configure the <https://docs.firebender.com/get-started/background-agents|background agent>
would love to get your thoughts on the UX and any feedback would be helpful!

If anything, TIL about git worktrees :sweat_smile:

big shout out to <https://x.com/AmanGotchu>
who was the lead engineer on this

go follow him, he is doing amazing work. his linkedin as well <https://www.linkedin.com/in/amangotchu/>

<@U3K6VQZLJ> can answer any technical questions on this, but git worktrees allow us to reuse the same repo/.git folder to save space without blowing up your machine

and allows parallel work in a temp folder

this is perfect for a local coding agent, and one of the primary issues with running parallel agents is conflicts, this solves that problem

I just open the same project in another directory and run anything I want in parallel :thinking_face: :shrug: Commit and push if the results are ok. 

<@U0FLRRSQK> you could do this manually, or you can do it in a managed way
1. no copying/pasting project directories over and over again
2. worktrees are more lightweight than full clones (shared .git)
3. heavier agent to run in the background flow, instead of reusing the same weaker coding agent in different project windows
would love to get your thoughts on the UX compared to what you're doing right now

join <#C09DG7J8LDS|> if y'all want to stay up to date!!!

we'll be posting more frequently there, and will have a lot of active discussions