"AI Was Supposed to Make Us Work Less": Dev Running 10 Agents at Once Is More Exhausted Than Ever
natesiggard · x · 2026-10-14
A developer complains that AI was supposed to reduce work, yet he has never been this tired: most days he runs up to 10 agents simultaneously — one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something he forgot he even asked for, three more he has no idea about — jumping between conversations all day, with context-switching costs far beyond five years ago. A reply adds that leadership has gotten used to the new speed AI enables and keeps pushing for more, leaving no time to slow down or rest.