Dr. Jack Morris, an AI researcher, contrasts his 2023 independent codebase building with 2026 workflows of managing multiple AI agents stuck on basic tasks for fifteen minutes

My work in 2023: think deeply about technical topic, build the perfect codebase from scratch, know it by heart My work in 2026: chatting with five dumb people at the same time, they've been stuck Whirliging... for fifteen minutes, not sure what to do so i might spin up a sixth