Why tmux beats hidden bash tool calls for watching AI agents work
lucasmeijer · x · 2026-09-16
Follow-up from lucasmeijer on his tmux workflow: everything hidden in bash tool calls is unreadable and leaves you with no idea what's going on — running the agent inside tmux sessions opened as views in his browser IDE makes the whole process observable, which he finds much nicer.
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