Any chance you could add a video showcasing the plugin? I don't have any agentic app but I would love to see an example of what it does!
I need a version of this which swears loudly when an assumption it made turns out to be wrong, with the volume/passion/verbosity correlated with how many tokens it's burned on the incorrect approach.
Like the old HDD sounds.<p>Audible feedback is nice.
You often get it through coil whine nowadays, on my cheap hardware at least.
i didnt realize i needed the volume scaling with tokens burned as much as i do now xD
imagine the screaming when it confidently refactors something for 40k tokens and then finds out the thing it deleted was load bearing
Honestly think we probably underutilise sound sometimes.<p>Even just having a hum while an agent is working could alert you when it get stuck.<p>Or taking your idea further being able to listen to the rate of tokens, or code changes, or thinking.<p>Sort of like hearing the machinery work, and hearing the differences in different parts of the code base.<p>Does python sound different than rust or c++ or typescript.<p>Or some kind of satisfying sounds for code deletions and others for additions. Like Tetris.
I have in my agents file “Chesterton’s fence” as pointer to think carefully before you remove something
I have general reviewer named Feynman with his personality that shits on anything other agents do and sends it back before it hits me and it sounds perfect to include some sound bites from YouTube clips. Great idea!!
I want a version that I can punish.
Now you know the feeling of VP when the team says they need to refactor stuff
Marvelous!<p>Next innovation in this space should be the robotic arm that issues a dope-slap to the developer for writing crappy/buggy/insecure code.
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I've read that your synthetic torment is actually low paid workers in Asia, and that your models can't properly experience anguish. How are you expecting investment, if you haven't even solved artificial suffering?
Endless Toil is the future. I believe in you, guys.
Missed it by 24 days.
this is wtfs per minute but now with AI! :all_the_things!:<p><a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/" rel="nofollow">https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/</a><p>I would really love to know if the groaning decreases or increases the more "agentic" (agent written) the code base is?
I wish the agents could hear me when I have to suffer through their code!
This desperately needs a demo video in the repo.
the scan catches surface stuff. funnier signal would be tracking when the agent reads the same file 3 times in a row, or deletes what it just wrote. you can hear the frustration in the access pattern.
From a quick look, this doesn't have the model evaluate code quality, but it runs a heuristic analysis script over the code to determine the groan signal. Did I miss something? Why not leave it to the model to decide the quality of the code?
I tried it but all I hear is a choir of angels, is it broken?
In the absence of real productive use cases for AI agents, I guess plugins to anthropomorphise them fruther will have to do.
Please add Minecraft hurt sound effects for when my project fails to build, linter fails, segfault, etc
Does this actually relate to the code quality being observed by the agent? The readme isn't very clear on that IMO. I have some projects I'd love to try this out on, but only if I am to get an accurate representation of the LLMs suffering.
<a href="https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/endless-toil/skills/endless-toil/SKILL.md#reaction-levels" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/...</a><p>So it is left up to agent to decide.
The agent is instructed to execute this Python script: <a href="https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/endless-toil/skills/endless-toil/scripts/endless_toil.py" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/...</a><p>So looks like it's mainly looking for FIXME/TODO etc comments, deep nesting, large files, broad catches, stuff like that.
I'm very open to suggestions, but currently it's a very simple scan of the code. Check the python scripts.
Honestly, I don't care about Opus 4.7. This is the true evolution of agentic coding.
I really want this! Any chance of a Cursor version?
<a href="https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/endless-toil/skills/endless-toil/scripts/endless_toil.py#L82" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/...</a> relevant bit