Managing agents is babysitting: every ping arrives equally loud
krishnan · x · 2026-11-02
Krishnan cites an Anthropic engineer comparing agent management to babysitting: a juice-box request gets voiced with the same urgency as a bleeding finger, and humans must do the triage. Interruption quality is the product question. Context from Anthropic's report: interactive Claude sessions spend 80% of wall-clock time idle waiting for human input — elapsed session time, not wasted human work.
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