For the library I'm working on I finally getting the power of running multiple agents in parallel. The problem I discovered is that the ping that the agent sends when the job is done is affecting my attention span, like chat app or email pings. A while ago Boris Cherny, who created Claude Code, mentioned on X that he had 8 tabs with agents open. The question I have is how many of those tabs are forgotten for days or even longer? I found out 4 agents running in parallel is my maximum, while maintaining a workflow that is not doing work between job-done-pings. More than 4 agents gave me more pressure to check when they are done. Maybe over time I will develop a higher tolerance, but for now that is my tipping point. I can understand that people that are more into AI will start longer running tasks. But I'm running short tasks, because those get the best results. Before AI came onto the scene, many developers had the idea two monitors were better than one.…