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Background agents do not work for real development, because steering a model as it drifts is the job, and you cannot steer what you are not watching.
Drawn from what Peter Steinberger said
Subjectcoding agents
What Peter Steinberger actually said
- Peter Steinberger Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade
Still don’t see how this could be moved to background agents. I steer the models a lot as I notice them drifting off - that’s much harder if they run in the background.
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The scarce skill is now context switching across parallel agents, not sustained deep work.
Cherny says the scarce skill is now jumping between several agents quickly rather than sustained deep work. Steinberger says steering a model as it drifts is the job, and you cannot steer what you are not watching. If the second is true the first is not a skill but a way of losing control of every agent at once.
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