1. Farewell deep focus. Before, I could work in flow state for hours on end. Now, waiting for the prompt to finish introduces constant interruptions, which translates into constant distractions, constant context switch, infinite ideas for endless new projects. My brain is melting. I can literally feel when my neurons start clogging up, forcing me to take frequent pauses just staring outside the window for 10 minutes straight.2. I don t own my own projects anymore. Before, I used to understand every single little implementation detail of a project. When a client reported a bug, I immediately knew what and where to fix in the code base. Now, all I can do is to clasp my hands and recite a prayer to the LLM deity, hoping that my voice will be heard.3. The overlords decide my fate. This is a corollary of #2. There s an outage every other day, and since I don t understand 80% of the code the AI has written, no AI available means it s literally impossible for me to work. I depend completely on its availability.4. It s mostly right, but never quite there. I really make an effort to write descriptive prompts, extensive documentation, and various design docs. All of this to make it easier for the AI to understand the context and philosophy of the project. I write AGENTS.md, skills and rules. Yet, it can easily do 80% of the work correctly, but it always makes some wrong assumptions that make the other 20% very hard to fix. You have to held it s hand over every single little bug that it can t automatically fix. Old, already fixed bugs keep resurfacing out of nowhere. It s like Penelope s shroud: it looks like it fixed the current problem, but an old fix just wen t undone. No real progress was made.This is my experience with coding agents, please tell me your own. I d love this to be a discussion.P.S. This post was handwritten by a human being.