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brian_r_hall

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    Comment #48418599

    I think it's really scary how agents are hallucinating/doing bad actions, then proceeding to gaslight you about how nothing went wrong. Then you tell the agent that it deleted your…

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    Comment #48416707

    For teaching beginners, I’d keep it “boring” at first: VSCode or terminal + Claude Code / Codex on a normal paid plan. The fancy multi-agent / worktree setups are useful later, but…

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    Comment #47482234

    Do you have any favorite products on indiehustles?

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    Comment #47458197

    The frustrating part is watching all the careful thinking about reliability and failure modes get thrown out the window the second something new gets hyped. It's not even that peop…

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    Comment #47440411

    The permission scope debate always ends up in the same place. Lock it down too much and it's useless, loosen it up and you're back to square one. And the boundary keeps moving as t…

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    Comment #47439685

    Context and governance end up being the same surface area approached from different ends. You're trimming what the agent sees, we've been working on what it's allowed to do once it…

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    Comment #47439259

    The deny list problem is real but I think the harder issue is that context matters so much. Deleting a temp file and deleting a config file look the same to a classifier. We've bee…

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    Show HN: Faramesh – open-source runtime enforcement for AI agents

    I'm Brian, co-founder of Faramesh. My co-founder Amjad and I were writing a research paper on AI agents last year, and the deeper we got into how agents actually execute in product…