Dev warns of coding agent mania: feeling busy all day while nothing really gets done
yenkel · x · 2026-10-30
yenkel reflects on a common trap with coding agents: a kind of mania where you feel constantly productive and always working, but nothing is really happening — often, he argues, a form of avoidance of something else in life.
In a follow-up jab, he notes people invent imaginary problems, solve them with AI, and then claim AI is solving real-world problems — a pointed critique of AI productivity narratives.
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