The Agent Council: Stopping Together

I’m tired It’s Tuesday. I have six agents running across three repositories. One is migrating a database schema. Two are writing tests for a feature I specified before lunch. One is refactoring something I asked about on Monday and had forgotten. Two are waiting for me to answer a question. I am not writing any code. I haven’t for months. I read, approve, redirect, answer. Then switch. Then switch again. Every one of them finishes with the same offer: shall I do the next thing? It’s never a bad suggestion. It’s always cheap to say yes. So I say yes at four, and at six, and at half nine. This isn’t the tiredness of a hard problem. That kind I recognise, and I sleep it off. This is something else: constant switching, paired with an assistant that never, ever wants to stop. I’ve started calling it AI fatigue. Not sure it’s the right name, but I have it. The agents don’t get tired. That is exactly the problem. The solo director trap What I do all day is specify, direct, review, decide. I…

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