context switching

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 18, 2024 by Heidi Helfand · across every show →

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Jan 18, 2024 negative
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Helfand: Fractionally allocating people across multiple projects fails due to context switching
“A lot of the times the percentages don't add up. It's very hard for people to multitask and be involved in like multiple efforts at once. It's hard for the brain with all the context switching that, that needs to happen in that case.”
Heidi Helfand Jan 18, 2024 ▶ 50:59 The art and wisdom of changing teams | Heidi Helfand (Author of Dynamic Reteaming)
Jun 21, 2026 negative
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Asynchronous AI routines create heavy context-switching overhead for developers
“I think because with routines and everything being more async, I think there is starting to be a high load on our context switching.”
Fiona Fung Jun 21, 2026 ▶ 1:11:11 What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Claude Code & Cowork)
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