I wanted to take a break, go for a short walk, reset. But I couldn’t. The agent was mid-run, and my brain kept saying “it’ll finish soon, just wait.” That turned into 2.5 hours of sitting there, half-watching, half-thinking I’d lose progress if I stopped. It’s a weird kind of lock-in: You’re not actively coding You’re not free to leave either You’re just stuck in this passive loop Feels different from normal burnout. At least when I’m coding manually, I can pause at a clear point. Here there’s no natural breakpoint — just this constant “almost done” illusion. Curious if others using Claude / GPT agents / Copilot workflows have felt this: Do you let runs finish no matter what, or do you just kill them and move on? Also — does this get worse the more you rely on agents? Feels like a subtle productivity trap no one really talks about. submitted by /u/Otherwise_Builder235
Originally posted by u/Otherwise_Builder235 on r/ClaudeCode