Orestis Ioannou personal blog

AI promised less work. I've never worked more

oioannou.com published 2026-10-277 min read

Agents made implementation cheap, so I started doing far more of it in parallel. My GitHub history since 2019 shows what that did: as VP of Technology I am back at my full-stack engineer pace, with bursts, burnout and a low season that is no longer low.

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