My Agent Doesn’t Sleep and Neither Do I

This was a long week. Exhausting. It’s been a few weeks of being exhausted now.
I hate to admit it, but I really do think it’s the cognitive overload that is happening with this new tool that I have gotten access to.
Previously, it was work that was maybe occupying most of my mental energy. But then all of a sudden, AI agents made it easier to build things “with little effort” after work hours.

I’ve read a few articles and listened to a few podcasts that talk about a similar exhaustion, and I’m just happy that I’m not alone.

But then that tells me that we should probably be taking a step back and actually figuring out how to best work with these new tools.

It’s really fun though. I remember this feeling from when I was young and just having the passion and motivation to build stuff, not running out of energy. It’s the same rush of being able to create something that helps you stay awake for several days for one project. Now it’s stay awake a day, for several projects.
Is it because I’m old?? The people I have heard mention this are people of my age range. I haven’t heard the young ones complain yet, it’s all about multitasking and maximizing agents.

Maybe we’re not built for this. I feel like I do need a detox soon. It’s no longer just work that’s burning me out but also my “free time,” which is spent sitting in front of my computer, or even in bed typing away on my phone, an even worse device for having full focus on, hacking away with my agent.

I wish there was a way to maybe interact with agents that doesn’t involve screens.
Bu

t then I second-guess myself, because maybe the screens aren’t actually the problem but the fact that we’re making our brains work more hours in a day than they should, and we end up so exhausted. The past few weeks I would wake up at 3 AM, come up with an idea, fire it off to my agent, and be unable to go back to sleep.

I really need to get enough sleep at least. Maybe there’s something I can do to convince my agent to have waking hours too. That way, I don’t get tempted to send them stuff and be stuck in that non-rest state.