Sam Casey
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@johncrickett I find switching between agents manageable only when I deeply plan all hard tasks out beforehand, or I’m switching between 1 hard task and N easy tasks
Doing 1 hard task and planning out a second hard task at the same time is a nightmare
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Software engineers: Context switching kills productivity.
Also software engineers: I'm now managing 19 AI agents and doing 1800 commits a day.
We’ve spent years complaining that managers who expect a quick 5-minute chat ruin our focus for the next hour. But a ping from an agent every few minutes, that’s ok?
We celebrated Paul Graham’s essay “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” in which he argued:
“When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in.”
Now we see software engineers claiming huge productivity gains from hordes of AI agents, celebrating thousands of commits per day from their 19 agents.
Either context switching was never really the problem, and we oversold our need for deep focus. Or we're not actually reviewing 1800 commits a day.
If we couldn't context switch before, we're not managing 19 agents. We're blindly trusting them.
That’s not engineering, it’s gambling.
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Sam Casey retweetledi

@FarzaTV @_buildspace N&W and sf1 were truly life changing for me and I’m forever grateful
thank you for everything Farza & team
you are all legends ❤️
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I have some tough news.
Today, @_buildspace is closing.
I wanna be real about everything.
It’s not because of investor pressure, runway, internal drama, monetization, or any of those reasons.
The actual reason is a bit more personal.
I wrote a letter about it below.
I know this company means so much to so many people. I hope after reading the letter, you can understand.
Ty for the five best years of my life.
No matter what happens, ily.
buildspace.so/letter
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does anyone know someone who does the link in dm on ig? (someone who had a business making this)
i wanna start the « comment bla-bla-bla and i’ll send you the link » reels
cc @_buildspace maybe someone from n&w?
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built a prototype to estimate Vo2Max on your phone
-input your info
-cover your flashlights & camera
-get your Vo2max, fitness age, and a lot more
lmk if you want to try it out!
toy for @_buildspace @_nightsweekends
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@AllanDeutsch @_buildspace @_nightsweekends @mrmagan_ @jlengstorf @FarzaTV really cool idea!
so as a dev if I go to a project's docs and find something to be vague, I could just highlight that part of the docs and say something like "this is unclear because xyz, i'm having trouble implementing it" and then the project would be alerted of my feedback?
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Doing the @_buildspace @_nightsweekends thing with docduck.dev.
Shoutout to @mrmagan_ for telling me about it! Super inspiring to see so many people excited about building things.
Buildspace vibes with @jlengstorf's talk on building for fun - youtube.com/live/o2VQXBI_y…

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cc: @_buildspace
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Sam Casey retweetledi

genuinely if you had told me 45 days ago i would be here i would not have believed you
like 6 months ago @AprilynneAlter said "I think you could crush it if you just focused on one thing instead of many"
as always, she was right :)

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