For 9 weeks, I mostly talked to one AI chat.
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In that time, it finished 560+ tasks and merged 365 pull requests across my projects.
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Yesterday, at Builder Sundays hosted at
@Shopify's Ottawa office, I showed how. The tool is
@myfirstmate, a free, open-source project by
@kunchenguid, a former L8 engineer at Atlassian.
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Kun built it because juggling parallel agent sessions was killing his focus. Every switch meant remembering what that session was about and what to do next. He didn't want a smarter workflow. He wanted the calm back, and the confidence that nothing falls through the cracks when you look away.
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How it works: you are the captain, one agent acts as your firstmate, and a crew of agents does the work. Nothing goes live without your yes.
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→ Orchestration. I only talk to firstmate. It breaks the work into separate tasks, starts a dedicated agent session for each one, and runs them in parallel. It keeps an eye on every session, handles the small stuff itself, and only comes to me when a decision actually needs me. When a task is done, it brings the result back for my review and approval.
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→ Memory. It keeps my projects, rules and in-flight work. /bearings is my morning brief, /stow saves what it learned. I close the laptop and pick up tomorrow where I left off.
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→ It improves itself. If something isn't working, I ask firstmate, and it fixes itself.
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The result: Partexia went live on iOS and Android, and CrewTower shipped 23 releases.
Thank you Kun Chen for building this and sharing it with everyone.