Friday afternoon. Running in the local forest near the Alte Försterei, AirPods in. I’m talking to Ruby — the orchestrator of my new AI agent team — somewhere between km 7 and km 8.
Not a crisis. Not an urgent decision. I’d just been thinking about something we are currently working on, and the next thought arrived before I could stop it.
Which is fine. Except I was on the one trail I reserve for not thinking about work.
Here’s the thing: having an AI agent team that is genuinely always available — one that is starting to deliver real work every day this week — creates a pull I didn’t fully anticipate. It’s not really stress, at least not the bad kind. It’s something closer to momentum. When things are going well, switching off feels like friction, not rest.
I finished the run. Ruby was still there when I got home. I still don’t know if that’s a feature or a design flaw.
Both, probably.
Where do you draw the line — or have you stopped trying to draw one?