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"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting.

I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day.

There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw

<p>&quot;Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting.

I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day.

There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?&quot; @simonw</p>

Peter Steinberger 🦞

A retweet highlighting that effectively using AI coding agents demands deep software engineering expertise and is mentally exhausting, suggesting these tools amplify rather than replace senior engineering judgment.

RT @lennysan: "Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhaus…

<p>RT @lennysan: &quot;Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhaus…</p>