Reflection

Someone at work drew this maturity curve on a whiteboard a few months back: gated, assisted, parallel, supervised, AI-native. Cute framing. I laughed at “AI-native” because it sounded like a LinkedIn post. Then I actually looked at where I sit on it and stopped laughing. Parallel. Third box from the left. I’ve been sitting there since maybe June. What Parallel actually feels like # Nobody warns you that “parallel” mostly means more browser tabs. Right now I’ve got six worktrees open — feat/rate-limit, fix/flaky-webhook-test, four others I’d have to alt-tab to name — each running its own agent, each waiting on me for something. My job title didn’t change but the job did. I used to produce the diff. Now I referee five diffs I didn’t write and one I’m too tired to remember starting.

Building in public is uncomfortable. You ship something half-baked and people see it. You write down a thought before it’s fully formed and it’s there, forever, attached to your name. That friction is the point. The default is to hide # Most people — myself included, for a long time — treat their work like a draft. Always one more iteration before it’s ready to show. Always one more feature before the product is good enough. Always one more revision before the post is worth publishing.