VCN #49: The Swarm

Heads up: this is a hands-on build night and bringing a laptop is mandatory. One agent is slow. So run a swarm. A single coding agent grinds through a repo one task at a time. But your repo has ten independent things that could ship tonight. The fix is parallelism: fan out N coding agents across N git worktrees so each works on its own slice, in its own isolated checkout, without stepping on the others. VCN #49: The Swarm is the builder night where we wire that up. Format: The walkthrough. The conductor pattern. One orchestrator splits the work, spins a git worktree per task, assigns an agent to each, and merges the results back. Why worktrees and not branches-in-place, and how isolation per worktree keeps the swarm from colliding.Fan-out, hands-on. You set up a swarm on a real repo. z.ai + Claude Code runs the conductor and the workers; Nebius Token Factory credits run the fleet of model calls. Multiple agents, multiple worktrees, one repo.Merge and conflict handling. The hard part is putting it back together. Merge strategy, conflict triage, and when two agents touched the same file anyway.When parallelism helps vs hurts. Swarms win on independent work and lose on tightly coupled changes. We name the line so you don't fan out into a merge nightmare. By 10pm you have a setup that runs multiple coding agents in parallel on a single repo. Builders only. Bring a laptop and a repo with more than one thing to do. Doors 7pm. Walkthrough 7:30. Frontier Tower Floor 10. Hosted by Vibe Coding Nights: Rayyan Zahid (Immersive Commons), Michalis Vasileiadis (Hacker Bob), Eric Mockler (AI Geneticist), Devinder Sodhi (Learning Layer Labs). Facilitator: Rayyan Zahid. Guest speaker TBD (open call). Your ticket includes z.ai + Claude Code for the session and Nebius Token Factory credits to run the labs. $10 early, $20 at the door. Frontier Tower members free. Reach out to the team directly for a free ticket. Frontier Tower members: your ticket is on us. Reach out to the team directly and we'll get you a free RSVP.