Busy via coding agents as a form of laziness

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You can feel very very busy while using coding agents. You have three windows open, all doing tasks. You are typing, reviewing at the speed of light. But done without great care, you are producing a lot of code but no value. Being Busy Is A Form Of Laziness, you feel very busy and good about, but if you would take a step back, you see that nothing important was done. For now, coding agents are restrained to simple tasks and we have to resist the temptation to do only the simple tasks then - or being captured in small irrelevant tasks if we split complex tasks down. The value of features follow the Power Law and being fast is not relevant if we don’t follow it ourself. We just wake up out of our busy agent coding work and realize that we have built something no one needs in record time.