I started an agent session this week with one goal: find some old repos.

It ended with a Windows autosetup rebuilt from scratch, Chocolatey, a self-hosted remote support client, Windows Hello policies and a Windows Update loop. Every single step made sense. None of them was the plan.

That's the trap. A side note costs nothing anymore, so every side note becomes a task. The agent says "by the way", and I say "sure, do that too".

Turns out the agents have the same disease. Google measured it: when an agent stumbles over a stray TODO and acts on it, 83% of the time nobody asked. 70% more steps, 77% more tokens.

So now there are two of us drifting. I need some sort of thought-sort. O(n²) if possible, or the brain-rot gets really real.