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Cognitive load: parallel AI coding sessions (personal)
"Cognitive load" came up in a conversation with a mentor recently. It wasn't even the main topic, but it stuck with me, and it's had me thinking all day. Here's where my head went. When you're coding with AI, vibe coding, running multiple agents across multiple windows, typing speed stopped being the bottleneck a while ago. The real limit now is cognitive. How many parallel threads can your brain actually hold? The context switching. The half-finished sessions waiting in other windows. The cost of keeping four agents going without dropping the thread on any of them. Some people run one session start to finish, then move on. Clean. Focused. Others keep three or four going at once, orchestrating, jumping between windows. Neither is better. But it says a lot about how you're wired. So now I'm just curious where everyone sits. When you're coding with AI, what's your actual cognitive limit before quality starts to slip?
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