AI Hot Takes

Louis Knight-Webb (Co-founder of Bloop) joins Jay to discuss Vibe Kanban, the orchestration platform for running multiple coding agents in parallel. 

Louis brings experience from four years building developer tools, starting with enterprise code search, then COBOL modernization, and now agent orchestration as coding agents have become the new primitive. 

The conversation revolves around how Vibe Kanban solves the bottleneck of running coding agents sequentially by enabling parallel execution with proper sandboxing, task management, and review workflows. 

Louis explains how they've built 90% of Vibe Kanban using Vibe Kanban itself, creating the tightest feedback loop in tech history. The platform integrates Claude Code, Amp, Gemini CLI, and other agents with Git work trees for lightweight sandboxing, setup/cleanup scripts, and one-click dev servers. 

Tune into the full episode to learn why the future of coding is about orchestrating AI workers rather than building vertical-specific solutions!

HIGHLIGHTS: 
0:00 Intro 
2:32 Code search to COBOL modernization to agent orchestration 
5:01 Vibe Kanban demo - parallel coding agent execution 
8:07 Git work trees for lightweight sandboxing vs Docker 
10:25 Building Vibe Kanban with Vibe Kanban 
12:47 Human as daddy agent delegating to coding agents 
14:17 Why review and planning remain human-centric bottlenecks 
16:14 Why DocuSign clones work but new ideas don't 
18:40 Integrating GitHub, project management, and terminal
 21:23 Enterprise vs startup coding workflows and convergence 
25:19 Cloud version challenges and technical adjacent users 
27:33 Task types that work well with coding agents vs manual work 
30:37 The high watermark of current agent capabilities 
33:32 YOLO mode vs proper code review for velocity vs quality 
35:49 Agent logs and thought process documentation for better review

Connect with Louis -https://www.linkedin.com/in/knightwebb/
Connect with Jay - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayhack/ or https://x.com/mathemagic1an
Visit https://vibe-kanban.com/ for agent orchestration


What is AI Hot Takes?

AI is seriously disrupting Software Development - but the hype cycles aren’t always the real story. Join Jay Hack, Mathemagician and Founder/CEO of Codegen, for weekly no-BS interviews for developers who want the truth on AI in coding from the founders, engineers and researchers who are building the future today.

We’ll be digging into topics such as:

-Why code review has become the new bottleneck (and how teams are solving it)
-Human vs. Agent: Which tasks should never be automated?
-Brutal truths from founders using their own AI tools
-Which dev tools will survive when OpenAI/Anthropic inevitably copies them
..and many more AI hot takes our guests are dying to share & discuss.

Warning: Contains unfiltered views on semicolons, merge queues, and the inevitable robot uprising in your IDE.