Lucas Beyer uses a running Codex session as a live progress and ETA estimator instead of building progress indicators into code, reflecting how agents are becoming ambient project monitors.
I stopped putting progress indicators in my code.
I just have a codex session running and ask it "look at the input and output files and read the tmux pane, then give me an ETA estimate."
And then just "And now?" every now and then.
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