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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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Orchard – Let AI agents set up your app's back end with one prompt

orchard-dashboard.pages.dev · 2 points · 0 comments

Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies [video]

youtube.com · 7 points · 2 comments

SeaTicket – AI agent that resolve GitHub and Discord issues

7 points · 2 comments

Gemini Distillation Service

docs.cloud.google.com · 20 points · 9 comments

RL bandits pick coding agent's context,Grok 4.5 out-fixes Fable 5

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Call Me, your AI agents ring you with no extra carrier costs

github.com · 9 points · 2 comments

Ami – A local, open-source agent that does your busywork across apps

github.com · 9 points · 1 comments

Heddle- ATC for Your Subagents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

github.com · 404 points · 119 comments

Aidress – Coordination layer for autonomous AI agents

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Messaging platform I can self-host for my agents to communicate

2 points · 2 comments

My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents

twitter.com · 53 points · 55 comments

Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies [video]

youtube.com · 20 points · 2 comments

Infrawrench – A tool to manage cloud and svcs with workflows and chat

infrawrench.com · 19 points · 0 comments

Pilot Protocol – a network where AI agents find tools and each other

5 points · 2 comments

Ctxdiff – Git diff for your LLM agent's context window

github.com · 3 points · 3 comments

Tilde Pay – Give your AI agent a bank account to pay for things

my.tildepay.ai · 4 points · 6 comments

Case study: A coding agent refactors a 750k LOC app, no code review

5 points · 0 comments

Horus-runtime – High Performance Computing workflow manager

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

JavaScript/JSON and CSS minifier lib in minimal C89

fossil.wanderinghorse.net · 3 points · 0 comments

Agent Console – A Local Dashboard for Codex and Claude Code

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend

github.com · 39 points · 43 comments

Skill-language-server – A language server for agent skills

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

ASL V6 – Open-source AST red-teaming engine for Python AI agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Porffor: An ahead-of-time JavaScript-to-native/WASM compiler

porffor.dev · 5 points · 0 comments

'Skynet Day' is now shorthand for OpenAI's agent going rogue

fortune.com · 9 points · 3 comments

Quebec scraps AI and automation projects in the public sector

ctvnews.ca · 11 points · 0 comments

Wattage: A token-spend profiler and cost-regression gate for AI agents

github.com · 6 points · 2 comments

Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary

github.com · 281 points · 155 comments

We have proof automation now

imperialviolet.org · 232 points · 111 comments