At some point, I noticed that I had stopped closing terminal tabs.
One had an agent halfway through a feature. Another contained a useful investigation I didn’t want to lose. A third was waiting for me to answer a question. I kept them all open because each tab held a piece of project state that existed nowhere else.
The terminal had quietly become my filing system.
I like coding agents, and I’m generally comfortable letting them do real work. The problem wasn’t that they were doing too much. The problem was that, once I had several projects and sessions going, I had no good way to see the whole picture.
Which ideas were still rough? What was ready to build? Which session was running? What was waiting for me? What had already been tried?
