Watched a coding agent spend 30 minutes "thinking" on what should've been a 10-minute task — barely touched any tokens, just… sat there. Not the first time I've seen it.
How common is this for everyone else? When your AI coding agent stalls like that, what's usually the cause in your setup — context bloat, a tool call hanging, waiting on a confirmation, something else? And do you just kill + restart, or have you found a way to keep it moving?
Trying to figure out if it's a me-problem or an everyone-problem.
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