What do you do when your agents go to work?

I got them (gender neutral singular) their food for thought, packed their skills, and well prompted them away. They are onto the next thing. I don't have the luxury of having many of them. I am unemployed and hence can't afford the max sub. So I care for the limited context and time I spend with them. I spend more time learning, researching, designing, and planning with the reasonable ones (codex 5. 2 3, amp deep, or Opus 4.x) while for actual implementation I take it up on myself (mostly) and when not then mostly ask amp smart to deal with it as long as my free credit is not halved which generally happens within 10 mins (thank you Opus for being so kind)

But the best thing about a poor man's agentic coding is the time one gets when agents are away. The time when you don't have to focus on the next screen full of Ralphs, the next cluster of swarms of parallel agents, the next telegram message to your sandboxed agent in the 3rd Mac mini parked in your in-laws' garage. Here are things that I do:

Look outside the window

Read/listen to really old Bengali literature

Decide the water to coffee ratio for my next pourover

explain my 9-yr old that Mathematics is the only truth

learn Zig the hard way and write simple Unison (no agents involved here)

Pick another random non-fiction from my tiny library, read a few pages, get distracted of the Crafting Interpreters giving me that being neglected look (I have to get back to it and many others of her ilk)

I go to sleep

Are you like me? What do you do when your agents go to work?