The Problem No One Talks About
AI coding assistants are fast. Absurdly fast. They can scaffold a service, write tests, and refactor a module in the time it takes me to finish my coffee.
But they do it one thing at a time.
I was working on a microservices audit logging system. Four tasks, all independent, all well-scoped: implement the event schema, build the ingestion endpoint, add the query API, write the integration tests. I could see the finish line from the start. And yet, I sat there feeding tasks one by one into my Claude Code session like I was hand-loading a washing machine with individual socks.
Each task took 10-15 minutes of agent time. Four tasks, run sequentially: an hour.
