Chris Rowe
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Chris Rowe
@chrisrowe
I make internet things



"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting. I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day. There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw






I was the original owner of the @Chase handle. I was offered $20,000 from a random broker, but I turned it down (seemed shady and was also against ToS). The next day Twitter took the handle from me without warning and handed it over to @jpmorgan days before the Twitter IPO.
























