Context Switching in the Age of AI Agents — When You Become the Scheduler#

2026-07-19

Now that AI agents carry out the final execution of work, people can run several tasks at once. And yet lately I have been feeling a strange kind of fatigue. Working with two or three agents in parallel, my hands are not particularly busy — but my head keeps spinning without traction. Every time a response notification arrives, I switch straight to that session to check it, and the result is a scattered mind and, if anything, worse overall performance.