Updated
Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 27
Matt Van Horn Manages 6-Plus AI Agents Around the Clock, Highlighting Burnout Anxiety
Updated
Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 27

Matt Van Horn Manages 6-Plus AI Agents Around the Clock, Highlighting Burnout Anxiety

1 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 27

Summary

  • More than six AI agents now run continuously on Matt Van Horn’s laptop in Anthropic’s Claude Code, with the entrepreneur checking in roughly every 10 minutes to assign the next task.
  • That workflow has erased normal off-hours: he keeps the system running at his children’s soccer practice, during school drop-offs and even on vacations.
  • One agent even monitors the others while he sleeps, underscoring how always-on AI tools are feeding burnout anxiety among Silicon Valley tech workers.

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