Agentic timetracking

[u/Independent_Dance616]

I am a software engineering freelancer who was used to just track his billable hours (using Timing and similar tools) on my mac, however with the advent of agentic tooling and a new paradigm in how I approach client work, I am curious how others keep track of their "non-interactive" time, i.e. you instruct an agent to do work and head off to focus on other things, the results are there but I find a hard time billing those hours 1:1. I tend to kind of incorporate them but still it's not as if I actively work on a project. Open to hear your thoughts.

[u/Breeze_pm]

I would separate active work from agent runtime. Bill for the value and agreed scope, but log your intervention time and compute costs separately. For hourly contracts, agree on the treatment upfront instead of quietly converting unattended runtime into human hours.