Why I Stopped Using LLMs to Schedule LLMs

Last year I had 10 open tickets, a week-long deadline, and three AI coding agents installed on my machine. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI. Each one individually capable of knocking out a task in minutes. Together? Absolute chaos. Agent A edits auth.py. Agent B edits auth.py. Agent A's changes get silently overwritten. Meanwhile, Agent C decides to "refactor" the test suite and breaks everything. Nobody runs the linter. Nobody checks types. I spend more time mediating conflicts than I would have