Hear your agent suffer through your code

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AAndrewVos about 8 hours ago 74 commentsRead Article on github.com

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fredley•about 6 hours ago

I 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.

shivaniShimpi_•about 6 hours ago

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

deathlock•about 4 hours ago

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!

AndrewVos•about 2 hours ago

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

tpoindex•about 4 hours ago

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.

a_t48•about 1 hour ago

Only if you want the slap to include a free trip to the hospital.

I've worked direct with "collaborative arms" before. They are supposed to be safe for humans to be around. The dents I put in the side of the casing of the arm somewhat said otherwise.

Mithriil•about 4 hours ago

Add the feature of doing a high five for the rare cases when it's actually good.

joshmarlow•about 4 hours ago

I propose a claude skill to email glitter bombs where appropriate.

radley•about 3 hours ago

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

But it'll happen. ChatGPT for sure.

js8•about 1 hour ago

I wonder if it emits orgasmic moans when working with a particularly pleasureable codebase.

rob74•about 5 hours ago

I wish the agents could hear me when I have to suffer through their code!

isolay•about 3 hours ago

And then what? Their gigahertz machine hearts will skip a beat out of empathy?

AndreVitorio•about 6 hours ago

This desperately needs a demo video in the repo.

shivaniShimpi_•about 6 hours ago

hear hear!!!

esperent•about 7 hours ago

I tried it but all I hear is a choir of angels, is it broken?

medwezys•about 7 hours ago

I guess you’re working on a greenfield project?

AndrewVos•about 7 hours ago

Actually, that's not a bad idea!

gavmor•about 3 hours ago

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

lorenzohess•about 5 hours ago

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

automatic6131•about 5 hours ago

We could have the roblox oof but then there'd be the possibility of giving (a certain) amateur world backgammon championship participant money

michael-online•about 3 hours ago

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.

lorenzohess•about 2 hours ago

Indeed, I'm responsible for suggesting https://github.com/ProfessionalGriefer/terminal-villager/pul...

melbazpeach•33 minutes ago

Is somebody going to give you money to do this?

melbazpeach•34 minutes ago

Why? I don’t understand the objective for this?

lagniappe•about 2 hours ago

That sounds like farts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7mYzSZdNPE

llbbdd•29 minutes ago

I'm glad I scrolled down; my first thought was to fork this and add a fart soundpack, because part of me is forever 12

tuo-lei•about 4 hours ago

the 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.

AndrewVos•about 1 hour ago

That’s a good point, I wonder if just tracking file reads as an app outside the agent would work

maerF0x0•about 3 hours ago

this 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?

8-prime•about 7 hours ago

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.

CWwdcdk7h•about 6 hours ago

https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/...

So it is left up to agent to decide.

Ghoelian•about 6 hours ago

The agent is instructed to execute this Python script: https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/...

So looks like it's mainly looking for FIXME/TODO etc comments, deep nesting, large files, broad catches, stuff like that.

AndrewVos•about 6 hours ago

I'm very open to suggestions, but currently it's a very simple scan of the code. Check the python scripts.

x187463•about 4 hours ago

From 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?

isolay•about 4 hours ago

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AndrewVos•about 2 hours ago

Please email us to talk Enterprise Plan pricing, actually.

secretsatan•about 1 hour ago

I made a robot that screams : https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/7rl2a0/i_m...

hansmayer•about 3 hours ago

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

sixothree•about 3 hours ago

How so?

hansmayer•about 3 hours ago

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?

sixothree•about 2 hours ago

You're being over-opinionated for something you don't understand.

You should really try these tools out with an open mind. I know you won't take that last bit of advice, so this makes you not worth my time. But I can tell you this - these tools make people productive in ways you aren't understanding.

greg_dc•about 7 hours ago

Honestly, I don't care about Opus 4.7. This is the true evolution of agentic coding.

xydone•about 3 hours ago

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

coldcity_again•about 6 hours ago

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

AndrewVos•about 6 hours ago

I just added a cursor plugin to the repo, let me know how it goes!

philipwhiuk•about 5 hours ago

https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/... relevant bit

AndrewVos•about 2 hours ago

Excuse me, that's our IP!