Multiplying yourself

Hey there,

2 months ago, I did something that sounds ridiculous: I closed my laptop while my coding agents kept working. And it felt like a breakthrough.

For context, I was running 6 to 10 agents on my MacBook at once. I kept it plugged in overnight, and I was pushing it so hard it was restarting daily. Somehow, that had become normal.

Switching to cloud agents, which run on remote computers instead of my laptop, changed that. I could close the lid and walk away, and things kept moving.

What I got back

The most meaningful improvement was having more room for the human parts of the job. I could leave work running while talking to students, visiting career centers, and catching up with mentors. I could give those conversations my full attention and come back to review what the agents had done.

Running several agents at once is still a strange feeling. It's like having doppelgangers picking up the things I would otherwise postpone or forget about.

The part I keep thinking about

I hadn't realized how much my setup was shaping my day until I changed it. Last year I was intimidated by the terminal. Now I'm learning to leave a little more room for "maybe there's another way" before accepting a limit.

And honestly, it feels incredibly freeing to have less of the execution living in my head. More ideas show up, and I'm more willing to follow them because trying one doesn't mean postponing everything else.

A question for you

Is there something in your work that you've accepted as normal, that might just be the way you first learned to do it? It might still be a real constraint. But with how fast things are changing, it's worth checking.

Hit reply and tell me, I'd love to hear it.

I wrote the full story here: Multiplying yourself.

See you next time,
Kevin