Choosing a slower pace in an agentic era

You see multiple bros with orchestration layers for agents, working on tasks in parallel using git worktrees. I said it multiple times, but I will repeat myself for this blog post, that ADHD people win nowadays. These people are successful solopreneurs that pay for tokens and get a high amount of collaboration leverage just by managing LLM agents. Is this good?

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Clearly this is not the first time I am thinking about this when I am writing a blog post about it. There is a tension in me that isn't going anywhere, where one side tells me I should keep the pace. But as with everything, naturally there is a balance and it will be preserved. The speed has it's limits too and there is only so much one can do.

How long will these people persist? Is it abandonware they are building or something they really care about? Is it only for the money or does the product have a deeper purpose?

I think this is one thing I am slowly starting to hate about my industry. It is the pace that seems to be only ever so increasing. I also like it because work is not monotonous. But what about this tension in me - should I ignore it or not? I don't think it's possible to ignore it because I keep getting back to the same question.

The older I get, the worse this is going to become. This is my feeling. We can push until we are 35 y/o but then we are burned out from the constant change and lucky ones want to keep only the managerial role. It's tough in the trenches, and you cannot wrestle with chips as they would just run over you.

I explored the topic of tech sustainability in the past and it is something I am concerned about again. One aspect of that is our relationship with the planet, and the other with ourselves. I think that both are being hijacked at the moment and it feels like this is the cause of for my inner tension caused by AI.

The speed is inhuman, and that's why I think human won't stay in the equation for too long.