Agreed, but leadership in employer thinks differently

Isn’t the whole problem that AI isn’t fast enough ? This problem wouldn’t exist if turns would take seconds instead of minutes.

A lot of time goes into actually doing the work: building, running tests, querying databases, executing scripts, calling tools, etc. The model also needs to inspect the results and decide what to do next, often repeating this cycle many times.

Sure but that can be done in parallel, agent thinking still takes up a huge amount of time, especially when writing code and initial exploration / planning / Q&A, which is where I spend most my time.