You know the feeling. You call your AI bot in Slack, hit enter, and then... nothing.

Dead silence.

You sit there staring at the screen. Is it actually running your code? Did the server crash? Is it just quietly judging your prompt? You have absolutely no idea. It's a black box of anxiety.

The standard solution to this UX nightmare isn't much better. Most bots just spam the thread with a million separate status messages:

"Claude is thinking..."