AI coding tools are useful, but they still need a human at the keyboard: nudging them, restarting them when they stall, copying output between sessions, explaining for the fourth time why that doesn’t work on this machine. I’d been staring at that problem for weeks. What if you could just let them run? Define what you want, go to sleep, wake up to working code. From what I’d seen, you’d need to hire someone to babysit the process 24/7.
I tried an AI orchestrator I’d heard about on YouTube. Good idea, but it was clearly a vibe-coded project. I used it for several days and it mostly just made me want to build something better.
So I’ve started building small wrappers for different AI coding tools, one per tool. Betting everything on one provider feels risky to me. Each tool has its own CLI, its own output format, and its own ways of failing, and I’d rather learn those one at a time than hide them behind an abstraction I don’t understand yet.
Those wrappers need to become one thing - right now each is its own little project with its own quirks. I want a single orchestrator that can drive any of them, so I can change tools without starting over. I’m still working out what they have in common.