agentic coding is a soft drug, so taking 'the only way out is through' approach is pretty viable. once you figure out how to swim and have claude running for an hour+ at a time and only bugging you with either high-level taste decisions or 'done, how's it look?' it's pretty low stress

if you're overloaded with PRs, build LLM-based systems to take the load off. don't be a senior engineer, be an engineering manager.