Dev pushes back on 'cognitive offloading' fear: real ceiling is attention times APM
menhguin · x · 2026-11-04
Developer menhguin disputes claims that using agents causes cognitive offloading: with the combined ceiling of thinking capacity times APM (actions per minute) being so high, the real job becomes monitoring which tasks the agents aren't handling well enough without your involvement—shifting cognition from hands-on execution to supervising and orchestrating multiple agents.
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