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by fredley 51 days ago
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.
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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
This was actually the original idea of the project, but I only had about 20 seconds to type the prompt for this today so this is where it is :)
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!!
Honestly think we probably underutilise sound sometimes.

Even just having a hum while an agent is working could alert you when it get stuck.

Or taking your idea further being able to listen to the rate of tokens, or code changes, or thinking.

Sort of like hearing the machinery work, and hearing the differences in different parts of the code base.

Does python sound different than rust or c++ or typescript.

Or some kind of satisfying sounds for code deletions and others for additions. Like Tetris.

A long, long time ago I wrote a tool to beep at various tones as lines were added to a log. It was a background noise I would not notice, except when it was changing because of some unusual activites.

It was very interesting to see the brain filering expected soinds and wake me up (or rather grab my attention) when unexpected ones appeared.

I have in my agents file “Chesterton’s fence” as pointer to think carefully before you remove something
Like the old HDD sounds.

Audible feedback is nice. You often get it through coil whine nowadays, on my cheap hardware at least.

I want a version that I can punish.
brooooo - your wish is granted - go whip your claude lmao https://github.com/GitFrog1111/OpenWhip
Now you know the feeling of VP when the team says they need to refactor stuff
That or having it start shit posting about your crappy code base on https://moltshit.com