Author warns of AI brain fry from coding agents

The author argues that the cognitive fatigue experienced by developers using AI coding tools stems from two main pressures: the leftover principle, which leaves humans with difficult supervisory and verification tasks, and the law of stretched systems, which pushes work tempo to new limits without building in recovery time. To combat this "AI brain fry," the author plans to deliberately schedule slack, structure code reviews in batches, and limit concurrent working threads. Open article →