My experience has been wildly different.

The way I tell this to people is "I have never worked less and I have never been more productive".

All of my effort goes into ensuring that agents work autonomously for days to weeks without me having to coddle them. This takes a lot of effort to ensure that my memories are pruned, my git logs are clean, that I've transferred my way of thinking to agents so that they can make autonomous decisions which are 60-80% aligned with what I would want.

And the reason I go with 60-80% is that's the level of alignment I expect to get from my product & engineering teams, in a given sprint/period. Like with them, I've accepted that I'm not the perfect solution and it's going to go through a few iterations before I shape it into what I want it to be.

If I had to constantly chat with my agents, I think I'd be burnt out too. because I find that it's an absolute drag talking to the machine.

edit: changed the last sentence, which was unintentionally judgey.