--- title: I Run a Fleet of AI Agents Across Three Machines. Here's... description: A developer at KRAFTON shares hard-won lessons from running a fleet of AI coding agents across three machines (a MacBook and two Linux boxes). Starting with a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-run-a-fleet-of-ai-agents-across-three-machines-here-s-what-broke---kyle-jaejun-lee-krafton-lkf7juzk1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Run a Fleet of AI Agents Across Three Machines. Here's What Broke. - Kyle Jaejun Lee, KRAFTON | daily.dev og:description: A developer at KRAFTON shares hard-won lessons from running a fleet of AI coding agents across three machines (a MacBook and two Linux boxes). Starting with a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-run-a-fleet-of-ai-agents-across-three-machines-here-s-what-broke---kyle-jaejun-lee-krafton-lkf7juzk1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lKf7jUZk1.png og:image:alt: I Run a Fleet of AI Agents Across Three Machines. Here's What Broke. - Kyle Jaejun Lee, KRAFTON og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Run a Fleet of AI Agents Across Three Machines. Here's What Broke. - Kyle Jaejun Lee, KRAFTON **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer at KRAFTON shares hard-won lessons from running a fleet of AI coding agents across three machines (a MacBook and two Linux boxes). Starting with a single machine and tmux, the author hit a wall managing six simultaneous agent contexts and redesigned the system as a hierarchical organization (CEO/VP/manager/worker), each with scoped context stored in files on disk rather than model context windows. Key failures documented include agents doing work instead of delegating, tmux pane overflow, memory exhaustion, credential collisions, and laptop crashes wiping in-flight work. Solutions included file-based state for crash recovery, a review gateway for human approval, Git-based context sync across machines, per-machine directories to avoid conflicts, a unified SSH gateway on an always-on Linux box, and Discord bots as a single remote control. Remaining unsolved problems — consistency, tool portability, credential handoff, and resource scheduling — point toward Kubernetes as the next layer underneath the orchestration stack. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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