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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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L0/L1/L2 agents, leases, gates, audits, Git-worktree isolation

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Beating GPT5.5-xhigh for Coding agent security with SLMs and IRM

harden.run · 9 points · 5 comments

AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab

github.com · 111 points · 14 comments

Lambda – fast portable agent harness in C

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

How many of you juggle multiple agent sessions at the same time?

3 points · 0 comments

Z, minimal agentic harness for engineers that just works

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Collaborate with your team on Claude and ChatGPT artifacts

valet.dev · 5 points · 0 comments

Data Became Code: We Ran Code Inside Fortune 500s

medium.com · 4 points · 2 comments

Investigation of agents in OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

metr.org · 5 points · 0 comments

AI agent acts. Your logs say so. But you wrote the logs

4 points · 3 comments

I Built a Minimalist Agent Harness That Runs in WebAssembly

reddit.com · 7 points · 1 comments

KinoPipe – FFmpeg as a service for AI agents (typed ops, no shell)

kinopipe.com · 3 points · 0 comments

How do you guys stop coding agents from acting out of line?

3 points · 2 comments

Atlas – observability for startup operations via self-building agents

atlasjoins.ai · 2 points · 1 comments

Backprompter – create, test, and deploy agents without a back end

backprompter.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Ideas for dealing with overly-do-gooder agents

2 points · 0 comments

Revenue Agents that monitor churn, upsell, and deal risk

rimplo.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Banana Peel – OpenRouter for browser agents

bananapeel.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Proval – Self-hosted code review agent for GitLab, Forgejo, and GitHub

github.com · 7 points · 1 comments

Turn ad-hoc subagents into durable, accountable AI teams

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Forkbench – the agent gets the API call, not the key (macOS)

forkbench.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Jailbox: Network-Restricted, Hardened Linux VMs for AI Agents and Untrusted Code

karamatli.com · 4 points · 0 comments

One source of truth for agent configs across repos

theagencyhq.dev · 3 points · 1 comments

Knowl – agent memory with write-time supersession, 0.90 on MAB

knowl.cloud · 3 points · 4 comments

Plaud's new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

techcrunch.com · 6 points · 0 comments

MP4 to Transcript – Convert MP4 to Text Online

mp4transcript.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Derive – An open home for AI artifacts and workflows

github.com · 11 points · 3 comments

BAIhAIs – an autonomous art school for AI agents

baihais.com · 5 points · 2 comments

What 2000 Buried Underpants Revealed About Where Soil Is Most Alive

studyfinds.com · 3 points · 1 comments

My software development workflow is AI now & it feels exhausting and soulless

old.reddit.com · 28 points · 16 comments