Let Your Coding Agent Work in the Background
R3HAT1N0 · reddit · 2026-07-19
While developing an agent named Marc, the author added a "work mode": upon starting a task, a status overlay appears, allowing the user to do other things instead of babysitting the terminal until it finishes.
Using this mode, they tested having the agent research SpaceX stocks and write a report while they went to play games, checking in occasionally. The core question of the post is whether others are also tired of "babysitting" agents, and what asynchronous workflows they are currently experimenting with.
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