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Automation — from shell scripts to AI agents — saves developers time and changes how work gets done. This topic covers workflow tools, RPA, CI automation, and the emerging category of autonomous AI systems.

HN builders share concrete setups and honest assessments of what is worth automating.

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I built an M2M payment loop where AI Agents pay for data via x402

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Agents Workbook watch Claude Code, Codex write down their working notes

github.com · 3 points · 2 comments

Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Agent

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

A benchmark for AI agent guardrails that caught my own plugin

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

AI writes dead code – the Go team's deadcode tool finds it in one command

towardsdev.com · 10 points · 0 comments

scScript for Linux

scapplications.com · 33 points · 11 comments

HarnessRouter: Unified interface for agent harnesses

github.com · 9 points · 11 comments

I gave my job search data an MCP interface

ackd.app · 4 points · 4 comments

What's the Best Agent Harness?

5 points · 3 comments

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

wiz.io · 29 points · 8 comments

Does whispering to agents in docs help?

passo.uno · 7 points · 0 comments

Pi coding agent: config folder is out of place on Linux

github.com · 25 points · 8 comments

Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Legbar – live AI agent sessions beside GitHub CI, in one terminal

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

What LLM subscription/provider to use with pi harness?

3 points · 2 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

math-ai-org.github.io · 64 points · 19 comments

A pre-execution guard that stops AI agents running destructive commands

github.com · 5 points · 2 comments

Harness session memory without transcript hoarding

llm-wiki.net · 4 points · 0 comments

Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent

github.com · 27 points · 0 comments

ProofRun – a local verification receipt for AI coding agents

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

anthropic.com · 18 points · 3 comments

I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI

waku.sh · 8 points · 2 comments

Snafu: Agentic flow to help you with "naming things" in source code

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

I Ported Moonshine to JavaScript

petewarden.com · 4 points · 0 comments

I evaluated file, vector, graph and RL based memory frameworks

pinglin.tw · 11 points · 1 comments

Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents

stephen-cresswell.com · 48 points · 24 comments

Agent-shell – vendor-neutral chat with AI agents in Emacs

xenodium.com · 7 points · 1 comments

I spent 3 months making desktop automation stop lying to AI agents

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Amazon reinstates binding arbitration, bars class-action lawsuits

reuters.com · 8 points · 1 comments

Flownie – Open and Visual Data Workflow Platform with AI Agent Assistance

flownie.com · 3 points · 0 comments