Hear your agent suffer through your code • Hacker News Board

Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code

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Post by idiotsecant » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 3:56 PM UTC

AndrewVos wrote: post #3

Hi 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…

Too real.

Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code

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Post by radley » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC

joshmarlow wrote: post #31

tpoindex wrote: post #26

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.

No. Please, no. For the love of everything no.

But it'll happen. ChatGPT for sure.

Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code

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Post by sixothree » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 4:02 PM UTC

hansmayer wrote: post #36

In the absence of real productive use cases for AI agents, I guess plugins to anthropomorphise them fruther will have to do.

How so?

Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code

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Post by xydone » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

Maybe I'm the person who yells at clouds but I find the personification of LLMs, for lack of better, less strong words, horrific.

Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code

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Post by hansmayer » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

sixothree wrote: post #43

hansmayer wrote: post #36

In the absence of real productive use cases for AI agents, I guess plugins to anthropomorphise them fruther will have to do.

How so?

How so what? 6 years in, we're still looking for that flood of new innovative apps and one-man billion dollar startups. Instead we got a flood of sh*t content, embarassing outages and "AI workflows" - which no one can quite describe. Or did you have something else in mind?

Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code

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Post by sixothree » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

coldcity_again wrote: post #8

I really want this! Any chance of a Cursor version?

People are continuing to use Cursor?

Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code

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Post by michael-online » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

lorenzohess wrote: post #19

Please add Minecraft hurt sound effects for when my project fails to build, linter fails, segfault, etc

You might be interested in this, it plays villager hurt sounds when your terminal hits errors https://github.com/ProfessionalGriefer/terminal-villager

I've had it running for a long time and it's more surprising to me to accidentally here the default ding when I'm away from my home machine.

Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code

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Post by gavmor » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

Unneeded when using local models, as every workload produces a novel pattern of coil whine from the GPU.

Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code

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Post by robbomacrae » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

8-prime wrote: post #7

Does this actually relate to the code quality being observed by the agent? The readme isn't very clear on that IMO. I have some projects I'd love to try this out on, but only if I am to get an accurate representation of the LLMs suffering.

You could have the actual output of the agent turned into TTS using the model of your choice with TalkiTo… or listen to whatever weird sounds this makes. Seems like this is copying that viral Mac moan app. 2026 is weird.

Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code

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Post by AndrewVos » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

deathlock wrote: post #24

Any chance you could add a video showcasing the plugin? I don't have any agentic app but I would love to see an example of what it does!

Well that took a lot longer than expected, but there is now a demo video.