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My AI Employees Won't Let Me Sleep

Kent C. Dodds

Hey John Doe,

My AI agents never sleep and it's awesome! Except it comes at a cost... Let me tell you what it's costing me and what I'm doing about it.

On September 12th at 1:17 in the morning, I told one of my Grok Bots "I'm going to sleep." Then I sent it three more messages within the next minute and a half ๐Ÿ˜…. And at a theme park with my kids, instead of just being in line with them, I disengaged with my kids to send something to my agents. That's time I'll never get back ๐Ÿ™

A boss knows they can't text their employees at 2 in the morning and expect an answer (and they really shouldn't do that to fellow humans anyway). My agents don't have that problem. They answer in seconds, every time. So the only limit left is me, and willpower clearly isn't going to fix it.

In the new episode of Better with Kent, I get honest about the downside of an agent team that never sleeps or eats, and try to fix it right on camera...

My AI Employees Won't Let Me Sleep

My AI Employees Won't Let Me Sleep

Watch it on YouTube

Thank you to PowerSync for sponsoring this episode! Check them out if you want real-time, offline-ready sync for your apps (and your agents).

So here's my question for you: What the heck are you doing about this problem? I need to know. I'm suffering!

- Kent

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