I made a robot that screams : https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/7rl2a0/i_m...
Hear your agent suffer through your code
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Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I mean, tokens cost money, so at least at this point I don't think one man is going to spend any less than a team to make the product. You're not putting out paychecks instead it's a check to Anthropic.
Also, you're not seeing these billion dollar startups, because they'd all be chasing AI rather than a product that would get replaced by AI anyway.
Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#83Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just add some audible vocal groans and moans that trigger whenever an agent is “thinking.”.
Should be showering sounds. Or walking in circles. And of course head scratching. As the las resort it should be fridge opening and 'meh' of resignation.
I've long been a fan of Pink Floyd's "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict"
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#85Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#86Hi 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 audibly LOLed mid-standup call, and now my entire team is playing with this and it looks like this is eating up what little productivity we have on Friday. Thanks Endless Toil!
I’m very glad to hear someone else is laughing at this as much as me <3
Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#87the scan catches surface stuff. funnier signal would be tracking when the agent reads the same file 3 times in a row, or deletes what it just wrote. you can hear the frustration in the access pattern.
That’s a good point, I wonder if just tracking file reads as an app outside the agent would work
Just track tool calls. Even diff logs would clue in. Tie in git? Why not? This is a great angle and idea, watching an agent modify the same text document over and over is already frustrating, having an audio to alert me a console is stuck is great. Likely annoying after a time, but hilarious right now.
Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#88Here's a demo video: https://youtu.be/m7mYzSZdNPE?t=21&is=oqvHiwmoyVujl_3Z
Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s a good point, I wonder if just tracking file reads as an app outside the agent would work
Just track tool calls. Even diff logs would clue in. Tie in git? Why not? This is a great angle and idea, watching an agent modify the same text document over and over is already frustrating, having an audio to alert me a console is stuck is great. Likely annoying after a time, but hilarious right now.
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Re: Hear your agent suffer through your code
#90Hi 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…
Just add some audible vocal groans and moans that trigger whenever an agent is “thinking.”.
I thought that was the human's job to provide. Have I been doing it wrong?