AI agents in a stand-up call

Take a stepback and understand why standup was invented in the first place. The reason was: information flow bottleneck - with agents information flow should not be a bottleneck because at any given time the agent can grab as much context as they need, including talking to other agents (althought that nit necessary imo since agents should work visibly through issues and PRs)

Its unbelievable how much everything changed in less then 5 years.

Just imagine seeing this in 2021

> Made by a bored dev and his robots. This dev was replaced by his own agents.

Maybe if you hadn't outsourced your job to Claude, you wouldn't be bored. And if you're forced to do so by manglement, why would you also outsource this toy project?

This is what my life's work is replaced by. I'm way over the initial shock and honestly these little guys are cute.

I would replace the AI avatars with Daedalus, Icarus, Helios and Morpheus avatars from Deus Ex

For a long time I've avoided anthropomorphizing agents like this, but it really is hard to ignore the effectiveness of using them with human processes and systems. Are the processes (standup, sprint, etc.) effective because they are using our languages? Or are the processes just universally good?

What is the point of an AI agents having a standup?

You don't need the self-policing enforcement of micromanagement that humans use standups for, after all.

I mean, why not just write the harness so that a management agent constantly reads those sub-agent's files and course-correct the subs?

I hope when the bubble pops people will reference this and go “yeah it got so stupid that people started making teams of cartoons you could work with” - our industry is a complete clown car right now

It's cute, but my goal is building serious projects autonomously.

https://github.com/pullboard-dev/pullboard

Been using the Pullboard workflow to build software that MUST be correct, and recently open sourced it. There was another HN link today involving agents role-playing and I can't take that seriously, no offense. (Love fun projects like this, seriously, it's cool.)

From my perspective, agents are great, they code better than most of us. But like all of us, they also make many mistakes or can't see how their changes impact the codebase. But that is a test-driven development mitigation along with some sort of scrutinizing process, "prove it". I'm actively working on this, and by actively working on it, I mean building serious apps that hit correctness walls, figuring out why Pullboard didn't catch it. To me, this is all about the process.

Love the promo video song, how did you make it?

This makes me want to get a job just to be able to run this with my coworkers.

All of this stuff feels like it will be obsoleted by just running one instance faster.

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