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Agentic coding mental load

March 31, 2026Lenny Rachitsky, ThePrimeagen, kache

Lenny Rachitsky says using coding agents well is mentally exhausting even with decades of experience, while ThePrimeagen and kache warn that overtrusting agents and not reading their output will burn teams.

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.
We are actively encouraging an entire generation that the tech is there when its not
if you're not reading every single line of code these "coding" agents produce you are not going to make it
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