Severance for AI Agents: Your Coding Agent Is an Innie

May 7 · 6 min read · Hacker News, front page, May 7, 2026: 🔥 "The bottleneck was never the code" — 538 points · 349 comments 🔥 "Appearing productive in the workplace" — 869 points · 334 comments Read those two together. They describe the same thing without knowing it: ...