I'll reply to myself since apparently people downvote and move on:
They're useful for allowing agents to work in parallel. I imagine some people give them access to git and tools and sandbox the agents, then let a bunch of them work in separate git worktrees pointed at the same branch, then they come back and investigate/compare and contrast what the agents have done, to accelerate their work.
I think there is value in that but it also feels like a lot of very draining work and I imagine long term you're no longer in control of the code base. Which, I mean, great if you're working on a huge code base since you already don't control that...
The average quality of software engineering is abysmal, and the average quality of software engineering management is even worse. I'm not very enthusiastic about where this is headed.
What's the benefit of git worktree? I imagine you can just not give the agent access to git and you're in the same spot?
I'll reply to myself since apparently people downvote and move on:
They're useful for allowing agents to work in parallel. I imagine some people give them access to git and tools and sandbox the agents, then let a bunch of them work in separate git worktrees pointed at the same branch, then they come back and investigate/compare and contrast what the agents have done, to accelerate their work.
I think there is value in that but it also feels like a lot of very draining work and I imagine long term you're no longer in control of the code base. Which, I mean, great if you're working on a huge code base since you already don't control that...
Welcome to engineering management.
The average quality of software engineering is abysmal, and the average quality of software engineering management is even worse. I'm not very enthusiastic about where this is headed.
tfw people are running agents outside containers
Yeah this something I need to get to.
Apologies. I meant branch. I nuked the branch. But set me back a lot of time as I thought it may be few things here and there.
I see! That is annoying. A good reminder to push or fork the branch for backup.
I always set gc.auto=0 for this reason, because it means the reflog will be there if I need it (unless I accidentally delete .git)