Engineer says his team's internal agent is so proactive it made him phone-addicted
philhchen · x · 2026-10-19
philhchen reports that his company's internal agent has become so productive and proactive that he grew addicted to checking his phone over the past week, often unable to go a minute without looking. He spent yesterday mostly off the phone and recommends trying it.
The post offers a first-hand glimpse of how agentic work reshapes human attention: humans increasingly hover, monitor, and wait on agent output.
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