Go check your terminal. How long has your agent been waiting?

Open the terminal where your agent is running. Do it now, before you read the rest.

Is something sitting there waiting for you? How long has it been there?

I did this an hour ago. Mine had been waiting 15 minutes. I was at my desk the whole time, two windows away.

That is the part I had wrong for a year. I thought this was a "stepped away from the computer" problem. It is not. Most of the waiting happens while I am sitting right there.

So I want to know what everyone else actually does about it.

1. Keep every terminal visible and glance at them

2. Alt tab every few minutes to check

3. Turn the prompts off, skip permissions, hope for the best

4. Wrote your own hook or script to ping you

5. Something smarter, please tell me

The other half of this I am less sure about. said in the last thread that the prompts he missed were almost never real decisions. A grep, a type check, a test command the agent had already run forty times that week. Mine looks the same. Which means half my waiting time is spent on questions nobody needed to ask.

So, two things. How long was yours waiting when you looked, and was the question worth it?

I will post the spread in a couple of weeks.

[I build Pushary, so I am not neutral about any of this. Asking anyway. The last two threads here taught me more than a month of building did.]

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15 minutes, and I was at my desk for all of it.

I am a 2. Alt tab every few minutes, which means I check most often when the agent is least likely to be asking, and never when I am deep in something.

What it was stuck on: bun run typecheck. It had run that same command several times already that morning.

The part that bothers me more. A few days before that it was bun run db:migrate pointed at production, and that one sat there in exactly the same way. Same silence, same nothing on screen. The command I could have approved blind and the one I actually wanted to read look identical while they wait.

So what is the worst number anyone has, and was it a grep or a migration?