264: Look Busy, Claude's Working

from Working Code · host Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham

The promise was that AI would take the grunt work off your plate and leave you the good stuff. This week is the part no one advertised: you got into this to make things — but what comes instead is the restless guilt of sitting there with nothing to do while the agent works, and the slow realization that when it finishes, the job left for you is mostly reviewing.Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday.And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon.Mentioned in this episode:xkcd: "Compiling"With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.Full show notes and transcript here.

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