Viberpsychosis Glossary
// The Actual Jargon

Background Agents

// What it actually means

Coding agents that run remotely on their own copy of your repository, working through a task without you watching and handing back a pull request when they finish.

// The diagnosis

Agents that work while you are not looking. Which is to say, agents. You close the laptop. They carry on. You open it again to four pull requests and the distinct sense of being managed.

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