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Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting.

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I can fire up like four agents

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in parallel and have them work on four different problems and by 11am I am wiped out for the day because there is a limit on human cognition in how much

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Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, just in how much you can hold in your head at one time, there's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits.

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What is a responsible way for us to not burn out and for us to use the time that we have?

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A lot of people are losing sleep because they're like, my coding agents could be doing work for me.

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I'm just gonna stay up an extra half hour and set off a bunch of extra things and they're waking up in four in the morning.

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That's obviously unsustainable