#developer-tools
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Tmux is Still Better Than Herdr (Here’s Why)
Sam Natale's 8-minute rebuttal (Aug 2026, 19k views) to the "ditch tmux for Herdr" wave: every feature people switch for (spin up a branch plus a fresh git worktree on the fly, a sidebar of agent status, a dashboard over agents and worktrees, automatic .env copying and node_modules symlinking) is shown working inside tmux with workmux.
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Herdr Crash Course — Step-by-Step Setup
Alejandro AO (AI educator, builds the Tau agent at Hugging Face) delivers a structured Herdr crash course: demo → what a multiplexer is → local + VPS setup → having an agent control Herdr itself. It's a second-chance conversion: "the first time I used Herdr... I didn't like it. Then I tried it again two weeks ago and I haven't been able to stop using it."
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This Tmux "Rewrite" Is Actually Brilliant
DevOps Toolbox (Omer, a self-professed tmux power user with published tmux plugins) reviews Herdr (herdr.dev) — the Rust "tmux rewrite" agent-native terminal multiplexer — and, despite arriving maximally skeptical of "multiplexers for agents," mostly converts.
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I'm ditching tmux for herdr!
typecraft (Chris, ~10-year tmux user, Neovim/Linux channel) announces he's fully switching from tmux to Herdr — the least hedged of the archive's three Herdr takes: "I'm definitely ditching tmux for Herdr... I don't see any other way."
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DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501
13 months after his AI-skeptic appearance, DHH returns fully converted: Omarchy Quattro (his Arch-based Linux distro) shipped with 100% agent-written code — he reviewed shape and critical model-layer lines, but hand-wrote nothing. "There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen."