@nolan

> There used to be a tax on ideas, and it just hit zero.

Perhaps the tax is gone, if your Claude bill is just an incidental, but your supplier dependence has just gone through the roof. This is putting aside the material costs of this form of computation, and the epistemic debt it incurs. My prediction: we will look back on this type of willful ignorance with horror.

@nolan FWIW I've started to scale back parallel agents and build in enforced breaks during my day. I found myself on the path to burn out otherwise. Maybe that will make me less competitive, but it seems better to find the right balance between productivity and sustainable pace.

Honestly maybe this is where a lot of the "agent psychosis" comes from. I used to be a very strict 9-to-5er, but it starts to look at bit silly when your contribution to the development process is a quick gut-check on each agent's 5-20 minute iteration loop. I can imagine people just fielding agent questions all day long, the way you might field Slack messages. I'm resisting, because I value my free time too much, but I can imagine getting sucked in.