Author explores Git worktrees after seeing AI coding agents rely on them
A developer describes discovering git worktrees—a decade-old git feature they'd never used—after noticing tools like Claude Code create a separate worktree for each task so multiple AI agents can work on the same repository in parallel. The piece explains that worktrees let you check out multiple branches into separate working directories simultaneously, all sharing the same underlying repository data, unlike traditional branch switching which requires stashing and checking out.