AgentPlayback finds Claude Code spent 48 hours a week just waiting for its human
ruididnothingwrong · reddit · 2026-09-07
A developer open-sourced AgentPlayback, a tool that parses local AI coding session logs:
- Headline finding: over one week, his Claude Code / Codex sessions accumulated 48 hours of "waiting for human input" — waiting on him is a full-time job
- The tool builds a circular timeline visualizing working, waiting-for-input, and overlapping sessions across projects, all running locally
- UI was hand-designed in Figma; implementation assisted by the Fable model
- Free and open source: try it with npx agentplayback
A practical way to quantify the human-in-the-loop bottleneck in agent workflows.
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