Reviewing Agent Output With Your Feet

You approve or reject agent output hundreds of times a day, and every single one of them takes a hand off the home row.

Where the time actually goes

Reviewing is now the main loop. The agent proposes, you decide, repeat. Each decision is tiny — a keystroke, a click, a hand moved to the trackpad and back — and none of them feel like they cost anything. Multiply by the number of decisions in a working day and the movement becomes the dominant physical activity of your job.

How the Pedal Three changes it

Pedal Three moves the three most repeated actions to the limbs that are doing nothing. Three ribbed pedals on a weighted base, each programmable to any key, combination, text string or mouse click, and because it enumerates as a keyboard there is no driver and no application that needs to know it exists.

Where it sits in a real workflow

The conventional mapping is accept on the left, reject on the right, hold-to-talk in the middle, and it survives contact with a real day because those three cover almost every branch of the review loop. Your hands stay in typing position permanently: you read the diff, your foot approves it, the next one appears. When something needs a real edit you are already on the keys. The middle pedal pairs naturally with a voice device — hold to speak, release to send — which turns the whole review cycle into feet and voice with the keyboard reserved for actual writing.

Doing the arithmetic yourself

Take the number of accepts and rejects you make in a day and multiply by the time your hand spends travelling to the key or trackpad and back. It is a small number times a big number. The interesting part is not the seconds; it is that the movement is the thing that makes review feel tiring.

Who gains most from the Pedal Three?

Anyone whose day is mostly reviewing rather than authoring. Not worth it if you mainly write code by hand and only occasionally consult an agent — the pedals earn their place through repetition.

The first twenty minutes

Program it once, then spend a day resisting the urge to use the keyboard for accept. The habit takes about that long to form.

Related

Pedal Three, $79 — full specification, frequently asked questions and what to know before buying. Or read about the Whisper Key, which solves a neighbouring problem.

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