My thoughts on building software using AI agents

I use LLMs a lot lately. I even got an unlimited access to a popular commercial model recently, which increased my usage even more. It’s all still so new to me. I keep poking at the limits and discovering what it means for software and three things come up for me on most days: Human focus is the scarcest resource We can ask the model to do anything. It’s so very tempting to ask it to do everything. I think that’s a trap. Toyota used work-in-progress limits to ship faster. The idea is: having more than n projects in progress at any given time means increases the total time required to ship them. I believe Toyota’s wisdom holds for software developers operating LLM agents. I’m very fatigued by switching between multiple agents and re-prompting them. I lose focus, and I can’t meaningfully drive anything to completion. This tells me I need to stop doing that and find a more productive way of working. That could mean driving just one or, at most, two agents at the same time. I’m trying…