Everybody is building tools for agents. Nobody is building actual products.
Wes observes that the market is flooded with terminal multiplexers and agent frameworks, all doing similar things slightly differently, with few actual products for end users. ✦ AI generated
Wes Bos · Syntax · 2026-07-22 · original ↗
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Everybody is building tools for agents. Nobody is building actual products. Everyone just is making tooling.
verbatim transcript · starts at 42:28
42:28Hold on, I'll see. >> Uh the terminal built for cloud code, W MUX. [laughter] THE window application built on electron, vertical tabs, notifications when agents need attention. Everybody is building the same thing. Everybody is building tools for agents. Nobody is building actual products. Everyone just is making tooling. >> There's got to be Wes. Uh there's got to be you got to start moving into double A's. So, like double
43:00A mux, double X mux. >> What about >> Uh cuz M M M U X. Mux. >> Mux. >> No. >> [laughter] >> Mux. >> Do you want to Would you buy a domain name where if you search it Google doesn't think you spelled the thing right? Mux. Did you mean mutt? Did I? >> I get so annoyed with Google doing that sometimes. It's like obviously I meant this the
43:27thing that I'm searching for, but yeah. >> It's an Indian university. Mutt. I mean >> V mux, NeoVim session handler for T mux. >> [laughter] >> I think that's the easiest part of the whole thing. >> manager for AI assisted development. >> Then they're all doing things slightly different, right? One feature I we didn't even talk about is this like the scratchpad feature is really cool in
43:53solo term, where you can have multiple agents running on something and they could be done in different harnesses, but they all have access to a single scratchpad, which I think could just be be text file on your computer with with some instructions, but it's kind of neat to give it a spot where it can store stuff and communicate with the other agents. >> Yeah. Okay, sick. I'm compiling a list of all
44:19of the different muxes right now. So, we talked a lot about hosting these on on your local machines or anything like that. Like I host mine on a refurbished Mac mini with an M2 processor that was fairly cheap and it runs everything just fine. There's also services like we just talked to Dax and Dax uh shared with the exe.dev which I'd seen before, but um this is something if you're looking to