Pattern: Frontier Coding Tools Converge on a Multi-Agent 'Command Center' Kanban

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Three independent products now ship the same UX primitive: Devin Desktop's Agent Command Center (a Kanban of every local/cloud agent by status), Cursor's up-to-8 parallel agents, and Windsurf Wave 13's up-to-5 simultaneous autonomous agents. The interface metaphor for AI coding is shifting from 'one chat thread' to 'a board of agents you supervise' — orchestration and review, not authoring, is becoming the human's primary surface.