[notes] Multitasking

It’s still terrible for us all.Assumed audience: People who are open to hearing an experience report from someone “in the wild” of professional software development with “agentic” coding tools. I am not talking here about the ethics or legality of their training, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have carefully-considered opinions about those considerations; that just isn’t that post. Multitasking has always been truly terrible for our ability to think clearly and work effectively. LLM-based “agents” don’t change that; they just offer one more invitation to distraction and split attention. Ignore the hype that says you must be running a multi-agent swarm: do good work instead. Some notes from my journal this morning, lightly expanded, along these same lines, prompted by finding myself as deeply muddled and distracted-feeling as I have been in a long time yesterday — Context switching and ways of working with LLMs that exacerbate context switching are not helping me be effective at work.…