Agents herders and the end of our writing ability

So much of our daily routine is oriented around herding agents. We are constantly disoriented by interruptions to review a proposal, read an email, review code, our own agents.

Because of this, I’m afraid I’m losing my ability to really write anything long form anymore. I’m also afraid I am losing my ability to organize ideas and thoughts as well as I used to.

Why? Well, because I prioritize performance and multi-tasking, I end up leveraging agents for so many things, as do others.

The problem with this is that it is training me to multi-task more and more and to not focus on single ideas/problems as much as I formerly had to.

For example, since I can assign a coding agent to do various tasks for me, instead of just twiddling my thumbs and looking at the agent, I’ll respond to emails, messages or, start another task. This means, I might have as many as 3/4 tasks going on concurrently that I’m popping around between. Even writing this post, I am preventing myself from, when taking breaks, wanting to check mail, check news, etc.

The LLM-powered, multi-tasking enabling machine of the LLM has started to destroy my ability to focus on ideas and problems.

It’s time to start writing again

It disciplines us to focus our attention in the current time where our attention is constantly being pulled in so many directions.

It helps us to express our thoughts and put ideas directly from our head into to the world without the reinterpretation of LLMs.

It trains our brain to organize ideas instead of relying on an LLM to re-frame and organize things for us.

For me, it’s time to get back to practicing my writing more. I’ve always been a poor writer; however, it has helped me to organize a lot of my thinking on important things. (I actually prefer pen and paper).

I will do this publicly on the blog.