Here's a workflow that has quietly become normal in 2026: you open a terminal, type claude (or fire up Grok, Kimi, or whatever agent you run), and start delegating. The agent reads files, edits files, writes files. You supervise.
And here's the part nobody talks about: the supervision experience is terrible.
Your agent lives in a terminal window. Your files live in Finder, or your editor's sidebar. Your agent's output (plans, reports, summaries, README updates) lands on disk as Markdown that Finder renders as a wall of # and *. So you sit there alt-tabbing between a terminal, a file browser, and an editor, playing air traffic controller for a process that's supposed to be saving you time.
I spent months doing exactly this before admitting the tooling was wrong. Not the agent... the agent is great. The environment around the agent was designed in 2001.
Full disclosure before we go further: I'm the developer of the app this article ends with. But the problem is real regardless of whose tool you use to fix it, so let's start there.
