Hear your agent suffer through your code

esperent

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

AndrewVos

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greg_dc

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

8-prime

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.

coldcity_again

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

fredley

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.

AndreVitorio

This desperately needs a demo video in the repo.

lorenzohess

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

philipwhiuk

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

rob74

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

tuo-lei

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.

deathlock

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!

tpoindex

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.

x187463

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?

maerF0x0

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?

hansmayer

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

xydone

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

gavmor

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

lagniappe

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

js8

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