Summary

Michael Richmond explores FOMAT (Fear of Missing Agent Time), a new concept in AI coding where developers struggle with unpredictable agent interactions and workflow interruptions. The talk focuses on the challenges of working with AI coding agents, highlighting the need for better tools to manage their asynchronous and often unpredictable work patterns. Richmond introduces his "command and control" system as a potential solution to help developers track and manage AI agent tasks more effectively, emphasizing that the landscape of agentic coding is rapidly evolving with new tools emerging to address these challenges. The key takeaway is that developers need more robust methods to monitor and interact with AI coding agents across different contexts and devices.