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I wrote a thing about how the industry's push for parallel agentic coding workflows is scientifically deluded. Some might call it a 'hot take' joshtuddenham.dev/blog/stop-mu...

joshtuddenham.devStop Multitasking. Parallel Agent Workflows Are Making You Slower And Burning You Out | Josh TuddenhamI've tested every multi-agent orchestration setup. Conductor, Cursor, Claude Code Max. I was faster single-threaded. The cognitive science on this runs decades deep.

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Parallel works fine for genuinely independent tasks. The delusion is assuming tasks ARE independent when they're not. Touch the same file from two agents = you've built a distributed system. People skip locking, ordering, rollback. The hard parts don't skip them.