AI Made Me 5x Faster. It Also Made Me 5x Worse at My Job.
One is halfway through a migration nobody wanted to do by hand. Their eyes move between panes like someone who put chips on three tables and cannot decide which one to be nervous about.Then the thought arrives.I could start a fourth one.I call it the fourth terminal, and I think it is the defining mistake of the AI coding era. Not because running agents in parallel is bad.
- ▪One is halfway through a migration nobody wanted to do by hand.
- ▪Their eyes move between panes like someone who put chips on three tables and cannot decide which one to be nervous about.Then the thought arrives.I could start a fourth one.I call it the fourth terminal, and I think it is the defining mista
- ▪Not because running agents in parallel is bad.
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| Canonical URL | https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-made-me-5x-faster-it-also-made-me-5x-worse-at-my-job/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:00:01 GMT |
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Generative AIAI Made Me 5x Faster. It Also Made Me 5x Worse at My Job.One near miss, four months of running agents, and the question almost nobody is asking: what are you supposed to do while the AI writes the code?Gursimar SinghSeptember 19, 202612 min readImage by author (Used AI)There is a moment happening in offices and bedrooms all over the world right now, and it looks like this.Three AI agent sessions are running. One is refactoring something. One is writing tests. One is halfway through a migration nobody wanted to do by hand. The person in front of them is not typing. They are watching.
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