Sick of Herding AI Cats?

A 54-year-old developer with roughly 40 years of experience released Clowder, a macOS-only floating app and menu bar tool that tracks Claude sessions across the console, the Claude app and Visual Studio so users can see which sessions are ready for attention. The developer said juggling multiple AI coding sessions across projects had led to cycling through windows and tabs, and described the tool as "a game changer for me personally," while noting Windows and Linux versions could follow if there is demand.

I'm 54 and I've been a developer for 40 odd years, but the last couple of years have been the strangest yet. I've gone from hand crafting and taking pride in every line of code, module, system design, architecture, etc. to basically trying to wrangle the best out of AI. I have to admit, it's knowledge, research skills and speed far outstrip my own, but it's attention to detail and design, both graphical and application wise and feature thoughts and general love of the output leave me cold. Also, given that every AI request takes more time than my very short attention span, I've found myself kicking off more and more sessions across more and more projects to the point that I found myself spending a lot of my time simply cycling through windows and tabs trying to work out which session needed my attention next. Weird world. Anyway, to try to help with that, I worked up an app that keeps track of all my Claude sessions in console, Claude App, Visual Studio , etc. and then gives me simple visual feedback in a floating little app and on the menu bar so that I can quickly see, and get access to sessions that are ready for me. Such a game changer for me personally, and maybe it helps some of you lovely folks. It's called Clowder https://clowder.sh https://clowder.sh , which is the plural noun for cats who knew . I chose it as I find my work strangely similar to herding cats. Sorry - mac only at the minute, but I'm sure we can work on a Windows and Linux version if there is a need. Anyway - weird world and I'm hoping my fellow coders amongst you are coping with all the changes that we seem to have inflicted on ourselves. All the best. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50493836 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50493836 Points: 1 Comments: 1