Blog post idea: running genaiscripts in parallel

[volkanunsal]

I've been noticing in my workflow that I'm using Claude Code in multiple terminal buffers to parallelize my workload. I found out that GenAIScript can run different tasks in multiple buffers in parallel too:

npx genaiscript@latest run /path/to/script --vars var1=value1 ...

I ran this in multiple tabs and saw the performance was pretty good. If it is actually correct that the tasks run in parallel, there may be a blog post here to inform people about this possible usecase.

More and more, I'm frustrated by editor based coding agents because they lack this capability, and I think GenAIScript would be a way to help programmers break out of the VSCode sandbox.

Any thoughts? @pelikhan

[github-actions]

Great post idea! Your description is clear and provides a real-world context for why running genaiscripts in parallel is valuable, especially when contrasted with editor-based agents. Highlighting your experience with multiple terminal buffers and specifically mentioning performance observations adds useful detail.

A couple of clarifying questions:

• Did you encounter any race conditions, conflicts, or issues with shared resources when running multiple scripts in parallel?
• Are there specific types of GenAIScript tasks that benefit most from this approach, or is it generally applicable?
• Do you have any qualitative or quantitative data on performance improvements compared to a sequential workflow?

Sharing this could definitely help others see GenAIScript’s strengths in a multi-process setup.

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[volkanunsal]

Did you encounter any race conditions, conflicts, or issues with shared resources when running multiple scripts in parallel?

No, it scaled pretty well, but I couldn't tell if it was concurrent or just buffering the output in a single thread.

Are there specific types of GenAIScript tasks that benefit most from this approach, or is it generally applicable?

I used it to summarize the commits in a CR in a git repo in a different workspace. I can't use GitHub for work projects, and the GenAIScript lives in a different part of the file system. I was worried initially that it wouldn't work because the git repo was not in the same workspace as GenAIScript, but I was pleasantly surprised.

[pelikhan]

Have you tried running runPrompt concurrently in JavaScript: you could do something like

const res = await Promise.all(data.map(async d => { 
   const res = await runPrompt(ctx => {
       ...
   })
})

[pelikhan]

The challenge is to run concurrently without hitting the throttling limits other than that, javascript with async/away is very well suited for this kind of stuff. https://microsoft.github.io/genaiscript/reference/scripts/concurrency/