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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

#715
Agent-first engineering infrastructure:- The "OS" for sovereign re-industrialisation.

The systems engineering V-model provides us with a general-purpose approach to solving difficult problems. It comes with an array of proven and trusted standards and document-oriented processes.

Given the number and detail of these documents and processes, automating some realisation of V-model is almost trivial. Tools like Codex and Claude Code are hardly less reliable and trustworthy than human engineers, and the existing standards already contain ways of mitigating the impact of imperfect work performed by error-prone agents.

The generality of this "Autonomous Systems Engineer" gives it a genuine claim to be something approaching AGI. Certainly it enables us to tackle much bigger and more challenging problems than we could with only the LLMs on their own. (Yes, it's "just another harness-of-harnesses", but that doesn't mean that what it can do isn't significant).

In addition to providing automation of high-integrity engineering practices, my project also provides a disciplined communication layer that sits on top of A2A or other similar protocols, enabling small agent-first engineering organisations to exchange well-defined highly-assured documents and accelerate b2b collaboration - enabling "swarms" of small, agile businesses to take on larger and more demanding challenges than they would be able to individually.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

#716

https://curvefit.app it's a weight-training app that helps you train along your "pareto frontier" of weight vs reps. The idea is to train at lower weight-higher rep, medium weight medium reps, and higher weight, lower reps for every movement. I tried to develop my own weight training program following bits and pieces of advice from bodybuilding forums and ended up injuring several tendons in my first year. So I did a…

> a bunch of research What exactly is your "research"? Is it reading more bodybuilder forums (bro science) or is it physiological studies (actual science)?

physiological papers. My main interest is contributing to the research by developing a fatigue model. My hypothesis is that athlete recovery factors like accrued fatigue in-day and cross-day can be used to predict workout log outputs of total tonnage, combination of weight and rep count, and proximity to failure. Eventually I hope to be able to link these recovery factors directly to provide targeted advice about your overall program's effectiveness, deload planning, etc. in order to most efficiently achieve strength, endurance, and hypertrophy goals.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

#718
- I've built a memory-safe, ownership-based, auto-freeing programming language (https://github.com/andrewjk/nomen) and am starting to use it here and there. It still has a few holes to plug!

- I've also been working on my full-stack JS framework (https://github.com/andrewjk/torpor) which is now faster, has more built-in components, and has single file code routing which can be migrated to full file routing when your site gets bigger

- Both started by a human but now mostly implemented by robots

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

#720

I made a very basic web app to make our family meal planning a bit easier. We’ve been using it for a few months, so now I’m trying to tidy it up so others can use it too. https://mealplannertool.com/

I need something like this. Would be nice if there was a randomizer.

Mealie supports this with some rules, and you can set up a crontab to randomly plan your week and tweak.

Shows up a lot of limitations about data captured, but as a starter for humans to tweak it's not bad.

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