The tab tax: why I stopped alt-tabbing out of my editor to test an API
Every alt-tab out of your editor to hit a web-based API client costs more than the two seconds it takes. The real cost is context, not latency.
Every alt-tab out of your editor to hit a web-based API client costs more than the two seconds it takes. The real cost is context, not latency.
The agent from yesterday looked productive. The agent from today has forgotten every decision you made. Here's the cheap handoff that stops the reset.
When the model writes both the handler and the test, green CI proves almost nothing. Here's the cheap structural fix that catches the failure mode.