{"slug": "ask-hn-what-do-you-do-when-your-ai-agents-are-working", "title": "Ask HN: What do you do when your AI agents are working?", "summary": "A Hacker News user asks the community how to avoid distraction and attention deficit while waiting for AI agents to complete coding tasks, noting increased downtime in their career and a tendency to open YouTube or HN. The post has 1 point and no comments as of publication.", "body_md": "# Ask HN: What do you do when your AI agents are working?\n\nBy mavsmanSource:\n\n[Hacker News AI](https://news.ycombinator.com)Maybe a dumb question but I don't think I've ever experienced more down/waiting time in my career so I'm much more prone to opening YouTube, HN, etc. despite not really wanting to.\n\nMost likely the answer is to just sit and do nothing. But have you discovered an approach to making agentic coding, etc work for you without feeding into distraction and [attention](/glossary/attention) deficit?\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049986](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049986)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-do-you-do-when-your-ai-agents-are-working", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/ask-hn-what-do-you-do-when-your-ai-agents-are-working-jzeg", "published_at": "2026-07-25 18:03:26+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-25 18:27:33.252126+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Hacker News", "YouTube"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-do-you-do-when-your-ai-agents-are-working", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-do-you-do-when-your-ai-agents-are-working.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-do-you-do-when-your-ai-agents-are-working.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-do-you-do-when-your-ai-agents-are-working.jsonld"}}