AI promised less work. I've never worked more

A full-stack engineer turned VP of Technology describes how using multiple AI agents in parallel has pushed his GitHub contribution counts back to full-time coding levels, with 2,102 contributions by October 27, 2026, already exceeding any full year from 2021 to 2025. He attributes this to agents making implementation cheap enough that he takes on far more work, producing repeated bursts of activity followed by exhaustion from reviewing and context switching. He concludes that his capacity to implement ideas has grown much faster than his capacity to think about them, and he has not found a balance.