Dev laments spending 75% of his time waiting for coding agents to finish
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-10-31
A developer says roughly 75% of his time now goes to waiting for AI agents to finish work. The idle time causes distraction and overthinking, and he suspects his code quality would be orders of magnitude better with faster feedback loops. His plea: "ultrafast for all wen?" — a sign that inference speed and loop latency have become the bottleneck of agentic coding.
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