"Latency priming": how one user mentally manages long-running AI agent waits
jacalulu · x · 2026-09-28
jacalulu shares her mindset for delegating to agents: her agent keeps complaining about "big jobs," so she calls the inevitable waiting "latency priming" — setting the expectation that she'll have to sit around while it works. Meanwhile, with 3 kids, 2 pets and a busy job, agent wait time is her laundry-catching-up time.
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