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Ask HN: What do you do when your AI agents are working?

4•mavsman•5h ago
Maybe a dumb question but I don't think I've ever experienced more down/waiting time in my career so I'm much more prone to opening YouTube, HN, etc. despite not really wanting to.

Most likely the answer is to just sit and do nothing. But have you discovered an approach to making agentic coding, etc work for you without feeding into distraction and attention deficit?

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vunderba•3h ago
There are basically two answers to this.

One option is to orchestrate more agents across different repositories or projects at the same time, so there’s essentially less downtime while you’re waiting between tasks. But I really dislike that kind of constant context switching - it makes me feel a bit like Lucille Ball in that 1950s episode where she's wrapping chocolates [1].

I prefer to focus on a single project at a time. When I do hand something off to an LLM, I have three go‑to activities that I alternate between. I'll try to do some physical exercise (jumping jacks, pull-ups and push-ups), grab my violin/piano since both are less than a meter from my desk, or I'll study Japanese.

[1] - https://youtu.be/AnHiAWlrYQc

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