I Built a 35-Agent AI Coding Swarm That Runs Overnight

Follow-up to * The Week I Stopped Coding * A month ago, I wrote about the moment I stopped coding and started orchestrating AI agents. That post was about the shift — the emotional and philosophical pivot from developer to director. This post is about what happened after. I built a system. Two physical machines on my home network, 14 containers, 35 concurrent AI coding sessions, and a 5-layer memory architecture that teaches agents not to repeat each other's mistakes. It scans my project management board every two minutes, picks up tickets, creates isolated git worktrees, spawns Claude Code sessions, writes code, creates pull requests, and updates ticket statuses — all without me touching a keyboard. It processes 20-40 tickets overnight. I wake up to PRs. I've Seen This Before In 2015, I was drawing CI/CD pipeline diagrams on whiteboards at Kohl's. Build → Test → Publish → QA → Deploy → Stabilization → Release. The full continuous delivery loop, managed by hundreds of people across mul