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Opus runs a swarm taking apart a GameCube game, merging hourly while he only checks in

Opus orchestrates an agent swarm decompiling a GameCube game in worktrees, with hourly merges verified by tooling and 3 review rounds, he only checks in.

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How it works

  1. Opus orchestrates a swarm of agents in separate worktrees
  2. Hourly merges are verified by tooling
  3. 3 review rounds run
  4. He only checks in on progress

Why it’s worth knowing

His job shrank to checking in on the swarm.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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