Show HN: Tonkotsu – a developer app for managing a team of AI coding agents

Show HN: Tonkotsu – a developer app for managing a team of AI coding agents(tonkotsu.ai)

3 points by derekcheng08 221 days ago | 4 comments

Hey HN, I’m Derek, part of a small team of ex-Facebook engineers and designer building Tonkotsu.

We strongly believe that the future of software development requires every developer to become the tech lead of a team of agents. That shift requires new tools and workflows that go beyond existing IDEs or terminal agents.

Tonkotsu is our take on that next-gen tool. It’s a desktop app that lets developers plan technical work, delegate many coding tasks in parallel, and then review the diffs — all in one place. Our main difference is that we tightly integrate this plan > delegate > verify loop and scale it up so that every engineer can use it to manage a team of agents working in parallel.

Current status:

- macOS + Windows desktop app

- Free to use during early access

Demo video (2 min): https://www.tonkotsu.ai/demo

Download: https://www.tonkotsu.ai

We’re really curious to hear from people who are using multiple agents in parallel already. What do your workflows look like? Where are the bottlenecks?

derekcheng08 221 days ago |

Forgot to mention that an interesting behavior we see emerging is “human as editor”: let the agents make several commits in a branch, and then the human does a single refinement pass over it before raising a PR. Curious if others use this workflow or something else?

rolph 221 days ago |

do you really like tonkotsu ? is the name collision on purpose, or only coincidence?

Tonkotsu ramen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonkotsu_ramen

derekcheng08 221 days ago | |

I do really like Tonkotsu :)

But beyond that, we wanted a playful, accessible brand. We think dev tools (particularly ones like Tonkotsu) are consumer products and we didn't want the staid/corporate branding many tools have.

rolph 221 days ago | | |

im thinking about the properties of Tonkotsu [broth], in comparison/contrast to Tonkotsu [app] such as traditional, frugal, ubiquitous, vital, etc.

its one of the first things i consider when i see a duet like this.

i get a visual of a barren dev cubicle, with a young dev sitting at the terminal, slouched over a bowl of ramen, while coding.

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on the technical side you may find this interesting. you are creating a CAS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_adaptive_system