Product decisions, implementation writeups, and what we learn running agents on machines nobody is watching.
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime is Apache-2.0 and stays open, and here is what the funding is actually for.
Herdr stopped animating its sidebar, drawing hidden panes, and repainting unchanged frames during mouse movement. The busiest sessions gained the most.
Coding agent CLIs are becoming developer infrastructure. Project instructions, lifecycle state, hooks, and terminal runtimes need shared contracts.
This one adds new persistence paths for updates, server restarts, and larger sessions.
Herdr can replace its server during an update while keeping pane processes alive.