{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"START","title":"START pod: Austin Wang, Co-Founder & CEO, Manaflow \"Building the open-source terminal for coding agents\"","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":842,"description":"10 coding agents running in parallel.Zero idea which one finished.\nThat was the problem.\nAround November, Austin Wang and his co-founder Lawrence Chen stopped opening their IDE.\nThey weren't writing code by hand anymore\nEverything ran through Claude Code and Codex in the terminal\n10 panes. 10 agents. 10 copies of the repo.\nAnd two problems appeared almost immediately.\nThey couldn't tell what each agent was working on.They couldn't tell when an agent had finished.\nSo they built cmux.com:\nNative macOS Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs, notifications, and built-in browser\nEach workspace shows the task, branch, ports, and pull request - so you always know what every agent is doing.\nWhen an agent finishes, it moves to the top with a blue notification ring.\nLike iMessage...\nBut for coding agents.\nWho's adopting it first?\nStaff and senior engineers.\nIt makes sense.\nThey're already used to breaking large problems into smaller ones and delegating the work.\nThe difference now?\nInstead of junior engineers, they're orchestrating dozens of coding agents in parallel.\nEven Austin and his co-founder don't work the same way.\nOne prefers worktrees.The other doesn't.\nThat's why cmux ships primitives, not prescriptions.\nDevelopers build the workflow that fits them.\nBecause nobody has figured out the \"right\" way to work with coding agents yet.\nAnd as those agents write more of the code...\nThe bottleneck won't be software.\nIt will be human attention.\n Austin Wang, Co-Founder & CEO, Manaflow on Fondo START pod\n00:15 — Introducing cmux and the YC journey00:00:50 — Pivoting from enterprise AI to dev tools00:01:25 — Leaving the IDE for the terminal00:02:00 — The problem that led to Arc-inspired workspaces 00:02:45 — Notifications for coding agents00:03:25 — Why developers are moving to terminal-first workflows 00:04:30 — Why senior engineers adopt cmux first 00:05:50 — Primitives over prescribed workflows00:07:00 — The future of autonomous code review 00:08:40 — Why human...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/q-E1hh7K6IS4AfZiNy2p4MYVGcUOO8lQP92h8QbOEOA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NzVj/MDEzNjkxNjU1N2Uy/NDFhMDQ3M2ZhNWI3/NWY0MS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}