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forketyforkon Show HN: Architect: A terminal for running multiple AI coding agents

I built this because I kept losing track of which agents needed attention. Running 4+ Claude Code sessions across terminal tabs, I'd find one sitting idle for 20 minutes waiting for approval while I was focused elsewhere. Desktop notifications didn't help — they'd vanish before I noticed.

Architect solves this with visual feedback. When an agent finishes, its cell changes hue. When it needs approval, it glows. The grid layout means I can see all sessions at once and know immediately where to focus. I also built in git worktree support, so switching between tasks is fast.

It's built on ghostty-vt (the terminal emulation library from Ghostty) and uses hooks from Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex to detect agent state. Written in Zig — partly to learn the language, partly because ghostty-vt is also Zig.

macOS only right now. Linux is planned.

Blog post with more details: https://forketyfork.github.io/blog/2026/01/21/running-4-ai-c...

forketyforkon Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews

"I just searched for jobs that match my skills, and you were one of them" also sounds fair enough to me.

However, when it comes to choosing between a candidate who scrambles for anything and someone who has at least some interest or knowledge of the company's business, the company will always choose the latter, and they will be right, and you would do the same in their place. If you force yourself to lie to get into the latter category, that's on you, not on them.

forketyforkon Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews

Sounds like a good answer to me.

forketyforkon Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews

Matching skills is nice, but do you really have no inclinations or preferences at all regarding the domain? You're just as (un)happy to program literally anything for money?

forketyforkon Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews

Why do you even think that you are expected to lie? Out of tens of thousands of companies on the market, you chose maybe ten to apply, including mine. Why? “Because I need money” is not an answer, or at least not the complete one. Somehow, ten companies out of thousands fit your filter. Why? That's all I want to know as an interviewer when I ask that question. Saying “you have the best compensation” is completely okay. Saying “you fit my developer profile” is also completely okay. It’s ridiculous that anyone could think that some company praise is in order. Just tell the truth, stop making up cases to be offended by an interview question.