“Am I the baddie?” by Ustice

I am a software engineer. I work for a company that makes software for road construction. Monday last week we were under a bad crunch and we were told to start using agentic workflows. We had like 50 tickets to close by the following Tuesday. I’ve been experimenting with ai development for years now, but this was different. I had access to Opus/Sonnet 4.6, and GPT5.4—the latest models. Suddenly, they understood. I could talk about abstract concept's and analogies, and it got them. I was soon working through tickets the first day in hours, what would have taken me days. But we still had a ton of work and not enough time. I was still bound to a single thread of work at a time. So like any problem, I hacked around it. I started with a worktree, where it basically creates a whole other copy of the project I was working in, and that meant multiple threads. Still I was limited to my single service, and the system that I work on has like 20 services. Wednesday comes, and I’m still cranking the tickets out, when I realized what I could do was create [...] --- First published: April 3rd, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fnGzDDhekkmPEBqa5/am-i-the-baddie --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.