The Agentic Power User's Playbook: Tips and Tricks for Swarm-Style Agentic Development (continued 2)
John Lindquist
- When
- Wednesday, July 11:55 PM – 2:15 PM · 20 min
- Where
- Track 4San Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
About this session
You opened a fifth agent tab this morning and immediately lost track of which one was doing what. This workshop is the playbook I use daily to run swarms of agents in parallel: the keyboard shortcuts, layout patterns, supervision habits, and fast-model tricks that turn chaos into a control surface. We'll go hands-on: spawning a wall of agents across tiled panes, routing prompts to the right swarm with fast models, switching contexts in milliseconds, recovering when an agent goes off the rails, and building the muscle memory that separates a one-agent-at-a-time user from a true power user. By the end you'll leave with a stocked toolbelt of concrete shortcuts, repeatable patterns, and workspace habits you can drop into your own setup the same day. No cloud, no platform lock-in: every trick runs on the machine in front of you.
Speaker
Agentic Instructor, egghead.io
John Lindquist currently teaches Codex "Power User" Workshops through https://egghead.io. As a seasoned software engineer, educator, and entrepreneur, he is best known as the co-founder of egghead.io – a premier online learning platform for web developers. With a career spanning two decades, John has built a reputation for creating innovative web applications and empowering countless developers through concise, high-impact video tutorials. He has led engineering teams for high-profile projects (from Disney entertainment sites to HBO's online platform) and traveled the globe as a Developer Evangelist, sharing his expertise at conferences and workshops. John's passion lies in demystifying complex technologies for others: he helped lead the JavaScript community into adopting framework-driven development with his early AngularJS tutorials, and to date he has produced over 500 programming videos covering everything from reactive programming and JavaScript fundamentals to the latest AI developer workflows and technologies. Collaborative and visionary, John continues to inspire developers worldwide by pioneering new ways to teach and embrace the latest development workflows.
More in Workshops Day 3
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- The Agentic Power User's Playbook: Tips and Tricks for Swarm-Style Agentic DevelopmentWednesday, July 1 · 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM · Track 4
- The Agentic Power User's Playbook: Tips and Tricks for Swarm-Style Agentic Development (continued 3)Wednesday, July 1 · 2:25 PM – 2:45 PM · Track 4
- Don't Write Skills, Train ModelsWednesday, July 1 · 2:50 PM – 3:10 PM · Track 4
- Don't Write Skills, Train Models (cont. 2/3)Wednesday, July 1 · 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM · Track 4
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