When Agents Work 4 Hours for You, Humans Still Can't Stop Optimizing Their Free Time
yihui_indie · x · 2026-09-27
Indie developer yihuiindie muses that once an agent can work continuously on your behalf for 4 hours, the human instinct is still to ask whether those 4 hours could be spent on something even more productive — rather than going out for sunshine and looking at the sky. "I can't speak for humanity," he jokes, "but I definitely have something wrong with me."
The post captures how productivity anxiety persists even after agents deliver real time savings.
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