Delegate, don't watch: checking back later beats staring at AI output
intellectronica · x · 2026-10-09
Responding to a thread about the urge to keep watching an AI's CoT summary after issuing a long task, the author argues that the more you practice delegating a task and returning to check on it later, the less AI drives you nuts and the better you get at delegation. Interactive use is best reserved for the limited cases where you're actually simulating interaction.
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