Where should agent status live on your physical desk?
arsarsarsarsars · reddit · 2026-09-10
A Reddit thread on a question nobody has formally designed: when agents run in the background, where do you physically look to see if they're done or stuck? The poster's main monitor is crammed with editor and research tabs, agent output gets buried on a second screen, and in practice he just blind alt-tabs every few minutes — peak absurdity being checking a Slack notification on his phone for a run two feet in front of him.
He's weighing propping up an old iPad next to the monitor just for agent status, and notes everyone is improvising with leftover screens or a tmux status bar; no one has deliberately designed this physical workflow. The comments collect monitoring setups from people running multiple agents at once.
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