When Four Sessions Blur the Work
Spreading attention across four agent sessions and three projects can turn building into a hard-to-follow cycle of prompts.
Developed from a conversation between Andy David and Pete Winn
Four agent sessions can look like abundant progress, especially when they cover four different tasks across three projects. Yet after three hours of activity, the work can become surprisingly difficult to recall, because the person directing it has had little chance to hold any one thread in mind long enough to form a clear account of what happened.
Attention instead settles into a repetitive rhythm of prompting, moving to the next task and prompting again. Each handoff keeps the sessions active, but it also makes the human experience of the work increasingly procedural, so the satisfaction of building fades even while useful activity may be continuing across the projects.
Capping the workload at two active sessions improved enjoyment. That limit doesn’t establish a universal ideal, but in this case it reduced the volume of concurrent prompting enough for the work to feel rewarding again, connecting the pleasure of building with an ability to remain mentally present as progress unfolds.