This is how I work now and I'm never going back

I saw it on X, like almost everything interesting these days. Someone was mentioning Orca as an ADE (AI Development Environment) and the way they described it caught my attention. It didn’t sound like another IDE with AI taped on; it sounded different.

I installed it without high expectations. I started exploring the options, seeing what it offered, and that’s when everything began.

Before Orca, my workflow was simple: open OpenCode, give it context, work on one task, repeat. Functional, but sequential. One task at a time, waiting for it to finish before starting the next. Like having a single developer working with me, useful, but it could be more.

With Orca I started orchestrating multiple agents. And here’s the trick: it’s not about releasing them all at once on the same code and hoping they don’t step on each other. Each agent gets its own SDD analysis (its time to read the code, understand the context) and works in an isolated worktree. So I can have one agent implementing a feature, another fixing a bug, and another researching something, all in parallel, without conflicts.

The pace changed completely. Now while one agent is working, I can be reviewing another agent’s PR that just finished. Manual review, PR by PR, validating with SDD if needed. Close one worktree, open the next.

OpenCode is still my tool for when I need depth on a single task. Orca is my agent orchestrator. They don’t compete, they complement each other.

And no, I’m never going back. The difference between working with one AI and orchestrating a team of agents isn’t gradual. It’s a leap.