How My Coding Workflow Changed - From VS Code to a Team of Agents

Back in May I wrote about my vibe coding setup. The short version: VS Code with the OpenChamber plugin running OpenCode, DeepSeek Flash doing the thinking, and me steering the whole thing. It was my daily driver for a while, and it worked.

Then I found Hermes Agent. I didn’t plan to switch. But the more I used it, the more I noticed I wasn’t opening VS Code. At some point it hit me: it had been weeks.

What’s Different

VS Code with an AI plugin is still a coding tool. I sit in it, I steer it, I review the output, I push things forward. Hermes is another level. It ties together the tools I use, my skills, my memory of how I work, my recent chats, and the projects I’m working on. All that context is there when I need it, so I’m not re-explaining myself every time I start something new.

That’s what made me more hands-off. Scaffolding a new project used to be a long session of prompting, checking, and correcting. Now I hand over the plan and the agents build it. I spend my time on orchestration, planning, and ideas, and the work happens without me hovering over every line. I get a lot more done than I did with my old setup.

My Team of Agents

I have four agents that work with me now. My primary agent handles my plans, my reviews, and the handoffs between projects. Hoshi is my social planner. Josh is my coding agent, the one that turns plans into shipped work. Compass is my research agent. Each one has its own job, and each one is getting to know how I like to work.

That last part saves the most time. The agents pick up my workflows as we go. They remember how I write, how I structure things, what I keep asking for. The longer I work with them, the less I have to spell out.

I didn’t think I would be replacing VS Code. I figured Hermes would sit on top of my existing setup and make it better. The more I used it, the more I realized I wasn’t going back. VS Code is still there, and it’s still fine. I just haven’t needed to open it in weeks.