Yes
I start adding more things simultaneously until I'm fully occupied
weitendorf on Hacker News
50% success rate
In the thread “GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world”, replying to this comment
Helped: Parallelizing multiple separable tasks to maximize throughput.
Got in the way: High variance and hand-holding required for single tasks.
… So it's a throughput problem. If there are multiple separable-enough things I also want to do, and I'm already sitting there working, I start adding more things simultaneously until I'm fully occupied. I'm also trying to get better at firing off work that is useful enough to be worth doing if it costs $2 and 10m prompting with a 50% success rate, but not worth doing if it costs me 4hr of focused work with a success rate still not close to 100%. …