Tag: productivity
All the articles with the tag "productivity".
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The Matrix Moment, and the Limits of Automation
Agent fluency can make an implausible number of projects feel possible. The final skill is not learning to automate everything; it is deciding which possibilities deserve the cost, risk, and attention.
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The Human Coordination Ceiling
A human can supervise several agents, but attention does not scale with token spend. Past a certain point, adding workers increases queues, conflicts, and missed failures faster than useful output.
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How the Creator of Claude Code Actually Uses It
Boris Cherny's workflow is less exotic than its throughput suggests: plan first, run agents in parallel, give them reliable verification, and turn repeated work into shared tooling.
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Surviving the Context Window in Practice
A context window is a budget. These are the tactics I use to manage it: scope each session, write durable state to disk, isolate research, and clear between phases.
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The Only Workflow That Works
AI agents amplify the engineering process around them. I compare three workflows that separate planning from execution, and explain where each is worth the ceremony.