Marvelous! Next innovation in this space should be the robotic arm that issues a dope-slap to the developer for writing crappy/buggy/insecure code.
I propose a claude skill to email glitter bombs where appropriate.
Hear your agent suffer through your code
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Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#32From a quick look, this doesn't have the model evaluate code quality, but it runs a heuristic analysis script over the code to determine the groan signal. Did I miss something? Why not leave it to the model to decide the quality of the code?
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Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#33I wish the agents could hear me when I have to suffer through their code!
And then what? Their gigahertz machine hearts will skip a beat out of empathy?
Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#34Hi Hacker News, I'm Andrew, the CTO of Endless Toil. Endless Toil is building the emotional observability layer for AI-assisted software development. As engineering teams adopt coding agents, the next challenge is understanding not just what agents produce, but how the codebase feels to work inside. Endless Toil gives developers a real-time signal for complexity, maintainability, and architectural strain by translati…
Endless Toil is the future. I believe in you, guys.
Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#35this is wtfs per minute but now with AI! :all_the_things!:
https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/
I would really love to know if the groaning decreases or increases the more "agentic" (agent written) the code base is?
Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#36In the absence of real productive use cases for AI agents, I guess plugins to anthropomorphise them fruther will have to do.
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#37I need a version of this which swears loudly when an assumption it made turns out to be wrong, with the volume/passion/verbosity correlated with how many tokens it's burned on the incorrect approach.
i didnt realize i needed the volume scaling with tokens burned as much as i do now xD imagine the screaming when it confidently refactors something for 40k tokens and then finds out the thing it deleted was load bearing
Honestly think we probably underutilise sound sometimes.
Even just having a hum while an agent is working could alert you when it get stuck.
Or taking your idea further being able to listen to the rate of tokens, or code changes, or thinking.
Sort of like hearing the machinery work, and hearing the differences in different parts of the code base.
Does python sound different than rust or c++ or typescript.
Or some kind of satisfying sounds for code deletions and others for additions. Like Tetris.
Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#38I need a version of this which swears loudly when an assumption it made turns out to be wrong, with the volume/passion/verbosity correlated with how many tokens it's burned on the incorrect approach.
Like the old HDD sounds.
Audible feedback is nice. You often get it through coil whine nowadays, on my cheap hardware at least.
Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#39Hi Hacker News, I'm Andrew, the CTO of Endless Toil. Endless Toil is building the emotional observability layer for AI-assisted software development. As engineering teams adopt coding agents, the next challenge is understanding not just what agents produce, but how the codebase feels to work inside. Endless Toil gives developers a real-time signal for complexity, maintainability, and architectural strain by translati…
I've read that your synthetic torment is actually low paid workers in Asia, and that your models can't properly experience anguish. How are you expecting investment, if you haven't even solved artificial suffering?
Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#40I need a version of this which swears loudly when an assumption it made turns out to be wrong, with the volume/passion/verbosity correlated with how many tokens it's burned on the incorrect approach.
I want a version that I can punish.
brooooo - your wish is granted - go whip your claude lmao https://github.com/GitFrog1111/OpenWhip