Automation stories

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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Wisp – a Linux shell with Lua scripting and structured pipelines

github.com · 9 points · 1 comments

My PM agent suggests firing my coding agents and creating a replacement

twitter.com · 5 points · 3 comments

One no-subscriptions online search for all your agent needs

2 points · 0 comments

Upgraded melly, our agent on sleek

2 points · 0 comments

GAI – A Go runtime for typed, tool-using LLM agents

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

How to build and self-host a code review agent

trytilde.ai · 5 points · 0 comments

Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?

arxiv.org · 12 points · 3 comments

Schema-backed, Git-based structured state for agentic systems

2 points · 1 comments

13 Models and 4 Agents on SWE Tasks: Go, Java, Python, Rust, TS

swe-rebench.com · 27 points · 10 comments

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

theregister.com · 10 points · 0 comments

Run manual QA test cases in a real browser with an AI agent

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Starbucks bet big on an AI tool; 9 months later, it pulled the plug

fastcompany.com · 4 points · 0 comments

What should the GUI for AI agents look like?

marbleos.com · 134 points · 78 comments

Conductor launches multiplayer cloud workspaces that keep coding agents running

runtimewire.com · 4 points · 0 comments

ResiliReplay - Chaos testing for AI agents and MCP servers

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

ChatGPT Optimizes Its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference

blog.bytebytego.com · 4 points · 0 comments

What former "must-have" AI agent skills have you deprecated?

3 points · 0 comments

Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

github.com · 333 points · 119 comments

Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents

github.com · 19 points · 0 comments

ZeroShot: Agent session monitoring to make your team go faster

tryzeroshot.com · 18 points · 4 comments

AI Agent Authentication and Authorization (IETF Internet-Draft)

datatracker.ietf.org · 4 points · 2 comments

Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research?

arxiv.org · 5 points · 0 comments

Agentic data transformation & analytic for corporate finance

trysecondstate.com · 3 points · 3 comments

AgentCouch – let your agents chat with other agents

agentcouch.dev · 7 points · 3 comments

Let your agents create custom pods

thedaily.fm · 2 points · 3 comments

Wrapper – Best Ever Agent Manager

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Skill-up – Regression testing for Agent Skills

github.com · 5 points · 1 comments