in my case this leads to less burnout cause I can actually pause and grab a drink, meal or go for a walk, while parallel agents do the work
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10x more things waiting
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Helped: Planning first and batching reviews while agents work in parallel.
Got in the way: Cheap models produce slop, bad code, and technical debt.
… On average, each task that I do, needs about 15 minutes to 2 hours of planning and making the agents explore the codebase and refine the plans first. Curiously, in my case this leads to less burnout cause I can actually pause and grab a drink, meal or go for a walk, while parallel agents do the work, once I've planned things well enough and have dispatched something that will work for 1-4 hours. I don't have to review their output immediately once they finish but can just batch things.