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AI agents in a stand-up call

20 points jonbaer 2 hours ago 17 comments

holdupagain 1 hour ago | parent

This is what my life's work is replaced by. I'm way over the initial shock and honestly these little guys are cute.

K0balt 1 hour ago | parent

I know right?

I’m running little offices of 5-10 persistent agents with defined roles and it’s crazy productive and code quality has never been better. I’ve been working on management of physical systems as well, and so far it’s been pretty solid.

technocratius 56 minutes ago | parent

When you say, persistent agents, how does that work in practice for you?

saturn8601 56 minutes ago | parent

Is there any great documentation you have followed to build your workflow or has it been experimentation? I've been experimenting a lot and gotten some cool things done but every time I read up on what everyone else is doing I realize I don't have much imagination and so I miss out.

seer 53 minutes ago | parent

Honestly Claude code with agent teams and opus 5.5 is good enough for this by default no need for a custom harness / skill

my-next-account 44 minutes ago | parent

Do you basically know that quality of code hasn't declined based on the number of incidents that are occurring? How do you even know what is happening?

duttish 36 minutes ago | parent

Whenever I stop reviewing code I later find yanky shit or a small but important misunderstanding in the plan or...

Claude has let me build really cool things but so far I'm not letting it run on it's own.

Olscore 20 minutes ago | parent

About 25-30% of the things shipped by agents need fixes.

coubri 1 hour ago | parent

Its unbelievable how much everything changed in less then 5 years.

Just imagine seeing this in 2021

lelanthran 57 minutes ago | parent

What is the point of an AI agents having a standup?

You don't need the self-policing enforcement of micromanagement that humans use standups for, after all.

I mean, why not just write the harness so that a management agent constantly reads those sub-agent's files and course-correct the subs?

gwt4life 38 minutes ago | parent

Its a gimmick.

Gigachad 54 minutes ago | parent

All of this stuff feels like it will be obsoleted by just running one instance faster.

piterrro 35 minutes ago | parent

Take a stepback and understand why standup was invented in the first place. The reason was: information flow bottleneck - with agents information flow should not be a bottleneck because at any given time the agent can grab as much context as they need, including talking to other agents (althought that nit necessary imo since agents should work visibly through issues and PRs)

Olscore 35 minutes ago | parent

It's cute, but my goal is building serious projects autonomously.

https://github.com/pullboard-dev/pullboard

Been using the Pullboard workflow to build software that MUST be correct, and recently open sourced it. There was another HN link today involving agents role-playing and I can't take that seriously, no offense. (Love fun projects like this, seriously, it's cool.)

From my perspective, agents are great, they code better than most of us. But like all of us, they also make many mistakes or can't see how their changes impact the codebase. But that is a test-driven development mitigation along with some sort of scrutinizing process, "prove it". I'm actively working on this, and by actively working on it, I mean building serious apps that hit correctness walls, figuring out why Pullboard didn't catch it. To me, this is all about the process.

cyberrock 33 minutes ago | parent

For a long time I've avoided anthropomorphizing agents like this, but it really is hard to ignore the effectiveness of using them with human processes and systems. Are the processes (standup, sprint, etc.) effective because they are using our languages? Or are the processes just universally good?

woggy 23 minutes ago | parent

I would replace the AI avatars with Daedalus, Icarus, Helios and Morpheus avatars from Deus Ex

bazza451 4 minutes ago | parent

I hope when the bubble pops people will reference this and go “yeah it got so stupid that people started making teams of cartoons you could work with” - our industry is a complete clown car right now