Let's Talk About FOMAT: Fear of Missing Agent Time — Michael Richman, Cmd+Ctrl
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Michael Richman from Bitly introduces 'FOMAT' (Fear of Missing Agent Time) — the frustration of not being able to monitor or interact with AI coding agents when away from your dev machine. To solve this, he built Command and Control, a system that provides a single pane of glass for all coding agent sessions (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, etc.) accessible from mobile, web, or even a smartwatch. Key features include push notifications when agents need input, remote session management, starting new sessions from anywhere, and an overview dashboard summarizing recent activity. The architecture uses per-agent daemons that report to a control plane API, with the daemon layer being open source. The talk closes with a reflection on how agentic coding has shifted developer 'flow' from solo focus to multi-agent choreography, and why systems enabling remote agent access are essential as task durations grow longer.