[panarky]

>> non-participation

> flip over to something else

A flow state is possible with 100% focus at any level of abstraction.

If you just "flip over" to HN while the agent thinks, then you're not 100% focused.

But if you're managing three agents at the same time on the same codebase, and while Agent 2 is thinking you "flip over" to Agent 3, you're still fully participating, just at a higher level of abstraction.

[TZubiri]

Right, same deal as if you were running multiple requests over the network, you need to parallelize them instead of idling while you wait for the network to complete.

[Philpax]

I would like to believe this, but in practice, the context switch involves purging my mental working state, which drags me out of the flow state. I'm not sure how to solve this, but I imagine that the context I switch to should be as close as possible to the one I started with - the problem then is that the agents might trample over each other.