Two Contra posts this week made the same point from opposite ends: a 32-bit CPU built in Google Sheets and a thermodynamic agent sim with a Pygame/TUI front end. Both put a readable system view next to the thing itself: a block diagram in one, a tick counter and event log in the other. I build CLI execution bots where sub-second latency matters, and the same rule applies: if tick, queue depth and the last event are not on one screen, debugging turns into guessing. My default layout is a status bar (state, tick, queued), a state panel for the current agent or job, an append-only event log, and a key legend at the bottom. What do you put on the first screen of your automation tools?