AndrewVos 5 hours ago
Hi Hacker News, I'm Andrew, the CTO of Endless Toil.

Endless Toil is building the emotional observability layer for AI-assisted software development.

As engineering teams adopt coding agents, the next challenge is understanding not just what agents produce, but how the codebase feels to work inside. Endless Toil gives developers a real-time signal for complexity, maintainability, and architectural strain by translating code quality into escalating human audio feedback.

We are currently preparing our pre-seed round and speaking with early-stage investors who are excited about developer tools, agentic engineering workflows, and the future of AI-native software teams.

If you are investing in the next generation of software infrastructure, we would love to talk.

mapt 2 minutes ago
This sounds a lot like the object of the seminal science fiction work "Don't Build The Torment Nexus".
ottah 2 hours ago
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?
bguberfain 12 minutes ago
This guy seems to be talking seriously.
idiotsecant 2 hours ago
Too real.
isolay 2 hours ago
Endless Toil is the future. I believe in you, guys.
vermilingua 2 hours ago
Missed it by 24 days.
fredley 5 hours 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.
shivaniShimpi_ 4 hours ago
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
aleksiy123 2 hours ago
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.

ben30 4 hours ago
I have in my agents file “Chesterton’s fence” as pointer to think carefully before you remove something
vasco 4 hours ago
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!!
jetbalsa 12 minutes ago
That or having it start shit posting about your crappy code base on https://moltshit.com
HPsquared 2 hours ago
Like the old HDD sounds.

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

amelius 2 hours ago
I want a version that I can punish.
shivaniShimpi_ 2 hours ago
brooooo - your wish is granted - go whip your claude lmao https://github.com/GitFrog1111/OpenWhip
whattheheckheck 2 hours ago
Now you know the feeling of VP when the team says they need to refactor stuff
deathlock 3 hours ago
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!
AndrewVos 31 minutes ago
Well that took a lot longer than expected, but there is now a demo video.
tpoindex 2 hours ago
Marvelous!

Next innovation in this space should be the robotic arm that issues a dope-slap to the developer for writing crappy/buggy/insecure code.

Mithriil 2 hours ago
Add the feature of doing a high five for the rare cases when it's actually good.
joshmarlow 2 hours ago
I propose a claude skill to email glitter bombs where appropriate.
radley 2 hours ago
No. Please, no. For the love of everything no.

But it'll happen. ChatGPT for sure.

rob74 3 hours ago
I wish the agents could hear me when I have to suffer through their code!
isolay 2 hours ago
And then what? Their gigahertz machine hearts will skip a beat out of empathy?
AndreVitorio 5 hours ago
This desperately needs a demo video in the repo.
AndrewVos 31 minutes ago
I've added this to the readme now, thanks
shivaniShimpi_ 4 hours ago
hear hear!!!
esperent 5 hours ago
I tried it but all I hear is a choir of angels, is it broken?
medwezys 5 hours ago
I guess you’re working on a greenfield project?
AndrewVos 5 hours ago
Actually, that's not a bad idea!
gavmor 35 minutes ago
Unneeded when using local models, as every workload produces a novel pattern of coil whine from the GPU.
maerF0x0 2 hours ago
this is wtfs per minute but now with AI! :all_the_things!:

https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/

I would really love to know if the groaning decreases or increases the more "agentic" (agent written) the code base is?

tuo-lei 3 hours ago
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.
lorenzohess 4 hours ago
Please add Minecraft hurt sound effects for when my project fails to build, linter fails, segfault, etc
michael-online 39 minutes ago
You might be interested in this, it plays villager hurt sounds when your terminal hits errors https://github.com/ProfessionalGriefer/terminal-villager

I've had it running for a long time and it's more surprising to me to accidentally here the default ding when I'm away from my home machine.

automatic6131 3 hours ago
We could have the roblox oof but then there'd be the possibility of giving (a certain) amateur world backgammon championship participant money
x187463 2 hours ago
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?
isolay 2 hours ago
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AndrewVos 30 minutes ago
Please email us to talk Enterprise Plan pricing, actually.
8-prime 5 hours ago
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.
robbomacrae 33 minutes ago
You could have the actual output of the agent turned into TTS using the model of your choice with TalkiTo… or listen to whatever weird sounds this makes. Seems like this is copying that viral Mac moan app. 2026 is weird.
CWwdcdk7h 5 hours ago
Ghoelian 5 hours ago
The agent is instructed to execute this Python script: https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/...

So looks like it's mainly looking for FIXME/TODO etc comments, deep nesting, large files, broad catches, stuff like that.

AndrewVos 5 hours ago
I'm very open to suggestions, but currently it's a very simple scan of the code. Check the python scripts.
xydone 56 minutes ago
Maybe I'm the person who yells at clouds but I find the personification of LLMs, for lack of better, less strong words, horrific.
hansmayer 2 hours ago
In the absence of real productive use cases for AI agents, I guess plugins to anthropomorphise them fruther will have to do.
sixothree 57 minutes ago
How so?
hansmayer 47 minutes ago
How so what? 6 years in, we're still looking for that flood of new innovative apps and one-man billion dollar startups. Instead we got a flood of sh*t content, embarassing outages and "AI workflows" - which no one can quite describe. Or did you have something else in mind?
sixothree 5 minutes ago
You're being over-opinionated for something you don't understand.

You should really try these tools out with an open mind. I know you won't take that last bit of advice, so this makes you not worth my time. But I can tell you this - these tools make people productive in ways you aren't understanding.

greg_dc 5 hours ago
Honestly, I don't care about Opus 4.7. This is the true evolution of agentic coding.
AndrewVos 30 minutes ago
Thank you, I hope my investors feel the same.
coldcity_again 5 hours ago
I really want this! Any chance of a Cursor version?
AndrewVos 5 hours ago
I just added a cursor plugin to the repo, let me know how it goes!
sixothree 41 minutes ago
People are continuing to use Cursor?
philipwhiuk 3 hours ago
AndrewVos 29 minutes ago
Excuse me, that's our IP!