I analyzed 3 weeks of my own messages to coding agents. 40% of what I typed was not real work. Is it the same for you?
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I run several coding agents in parallel, mostly Claude Code and Kimi, sometimes Cursor and Copilot. I felt slow, so I exported every message I sent them over 3 weeks and had each one read and labeled by what it was for. I did not use keyword search. I tried that first and it gave wrong numbers. Aft…
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- 2026-09-20 19:00 · DEV Community — AI
I analyzed 3 weeks of my own messages to coding agents. 40% of what I typed was not real work. Is it the same for you?