There appears to be some competition in place to run as many of these agents in parallel with almost no quality control in some circles. And to then use agents to try to create documentation artifacts to regain some confidence of what is actually going on. Except those documents themselves read like slop.
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When I watch someone at 3am, running their tenth parallel agent session, telling me they’ve never been more productive — in that moment I don’t see productivity. I see someone who might need to step away from the machine for a bit. And I wonder how often that someone is me.
This mirrors my impression after learning more about the Ralph loop that everyone’s talking about.
I recommend the normie loop: tell Claude/Codex/whatever what to do, watch what it does and steer as needed, repeat.