Michael Richman

Michael Richman is VP of Engineering at Bitly, focused on platform, infrastructure, security, scalability, modernization, and Trust & Safety. He is also the author/builder behind Cmd+Ctrl, an AI coding-agent orchestration platform, and has spoken publicly about AI developer productivity and agent workflows.

Parallel Coding Agents Turn Human Availability Into a Systems Problem

Michael Richman argues that coding agents are still too dependent on unpredictable human input for developers to treat them as set-and-forget tools. His Cmd+Ctrl system is meant to reduce what he calls FOMAT, or fear of missing agent time, by aggregating sessions across tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Gemini CLI, sending notifications when agents finish or get stuck, and letting users respond or start sessions from mobile, web, watch or terminal surfaces.

AI EngineerMay 24, 202610 min read