{
 "id": 76072,
 "slug": "working-twenty-times-faster-with-agents-and-the-human-in-the-loop-who-tires",
 "url": "https://agents.willem.com/en/snippets/working-twenty-times-faster-with-agents-and-the-human-in-the-loop-who-tires/",
 "language": "en",
 "title": "Working twenty times faster with agents, and the human in the loop who tires",
 "subtitle": "The agents do not tire, I do, so the pace is mine to set.",
 "summary": "On 11 August 2026 I wrote in my notebook that the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top speed: in one day I do what I used to do in twenty. This is what that does to the human in the loop, and the counterweight I found.",
 "topics": [
  "AI",
  "health",
  "lifestyle",
  "people",
  "running",
  "work"
 ],
 "date": "2026-09-07",
 "published": "2026-09-07T00:00:00+02:00",
 "created": "2026-09-08T11:20:05.716000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-09-08T11:48:56.348000+02:00",
 "full_article_url": "https://willem.com/en/2026-09-07_twenty-times-faster/",
 "author": {
  "name": "Willem L. Middelkoop",
  "url": "https://willem.com"
 },
 "note": "A short distillation of a longer willem.com post. Not currently published on willem.com itself.",
 "answers_question": "What does working twenty times faster with AI agents do to the person in the loop?",
 "text": "Twenty times faster is real: the agents draft, build, test and rewrite while I read, decide and correct. The bill is real too. The judgement cannot be delegated, and judgement tires in a way typing never did.\nThe counterweight is physical. A run, a night of sleep, a week of deliberately doing less. Not a break from the work, but how the work stays good.\nThis is a marathon, not a sprint. The first post of September was written on a day of doing less, on purpose.",
 "markdown_url": "https://agents.willem.com/en/snippets/working-twenty-times-faster-with-agents-and-the-human-in-the-loop-who-tires/snippet.md"
}