From One Agent to Coding Agent Armies: My 15-Month Journey to AI Orchestration

There’s a specific feeling I remember from late 2024. I was sitting in front of my screen, carefully managing a single Cline coding agent in VS Code, watching a context window fill up like a bucket in the rain — knowing I had maybe thirty minutes before I’d have to hand everything off, document the state, and start fresh with a new agent that knew nothing of what we’d just built together. Fifteen months later, I watched 21 AI agents simultaneously build, test, and coordinate a production-ready social media marketing app — while I made coffee. That distance between then and now is the story I want to tell.