Coding agents made one developer 5–10x faster, then context became the bottleneck
ili-fil · reddit · 2026-07-21
A developer says coding agents made them 5–10x more productive, but the real bottleneck has shifted to context management, review, and intent tracking.
- They now run 3–4 agent sessions in parallel using separate worktrees.
- The hard part is not writing code, but remembering constraints, decisions, branch intent, and what changed mid-session.
- They are building an issue tracker that captures instructions, decisions, and session history so humans and agents can review against intent, not just code.
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