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Agentic AI enables autonomous agents to plan, execute, and optimize enterprise workflows with minimal human input, adapting to dynamic conditions and improving efficiency, decision-making, and overall business productivity.
hey folks, hope this doesn't come off as spammy but i'm genuinely looking for feedback here so i've been messing around with AI art tools for like a year now, trying to make a simple comic series for instagram. the problem? every single tool would turn my main character into a completely different …
Hiring is broken, especially at the top of the funnel. A while back, I was spending hours every week just sifting through resumes and doing repetitive initial screening calls. Most of those calls ended up going nowhere. It was incredibly draining and took me away from actually running my business. …
Hi all, I’m excited to share something that’s been a huge part of running our company (currently \~13 people) for decades: our internal ERP system. Over \~25 years, we developed and refined a system for managing: * marketing / CRM workflows * time tracking * quotes and proposals * project managemen…
Local-first Agentic AI system for business operations that detects issues, makes hybrid decisions (rules + ML + reasoning), executes actions, and improves through feedback memory.
I know there are already a lot of food scanner apps, so I didn’t want to build just another one. The gap I kept noticing was personalization. Most apps feel pretty generic, but real grocery shopping usually isn’t. In one household, one person might have allergies, another is trying to avoid seed oi…
Reveila‑Suite is a cross‑platform, distributed agentic AI execution fabric that autonomously discover, orchestrate, and execute complex business logic at scale. Its secure and observable foundation orchestrates AI agents across heterogeneous environments, allowing enterprises to modernize automatio…
I did cold emails cold dms google business linkedin everything the internet told me to do. put in real effort. was genuinely good at what I do. still nothing. not because I was bad. because I wasnt a marketing expert. and that one gap made me completely invisible to people who actually needed me. i…
Spent way too long rebuilding the same prompts from scratch because I couldn't find where I'd stashed them last time. Local files, random gists, Notion pages — none of it stuck. Eventually I landed on a workflow that actually works: **1. Treat prompts like code, not notes** Give every prompt a name…
Open-source AI agent that builds zero-human businesses, grows audiences, ships code, all autonomously.
Wheelchair users with severe disabilities can often navigate tight spaces better than most robotic systems can. A wave of new smart-wheelchair research, including findings presented in Anaheim, Calif., earlier this month, is now testing whether AI-powered systems can, or should, fully close this ga…
GuyHi everyone, I'm a student from a Tier 3 college, have some knowledge on MERN stack, ML, GenAI, and agentic AI. I'm looking for opportunities to apply my knowledge and build something..I Dont know where to apply them..and i dont know much... I'm finding it difficult to connect with like-minded i…
Your coding agent isn’t “bad at the repo”—it’s flying blind without an honest front door. I optimized **[AutoMFlows](https://github.com/ashxtrem/AutoMFlows)** for agentic work the boring way: a contract, a verify bar you can run headlessly, and a scorecard I re-audit so I don’t regress. **What actu…
Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a project called Conveyor. It’s a lightweight pipeline runner that brings the visibility of tools like Jenkins directly to your terminal. I built it because I wanted a way to run complex, multi-stage pipelines locally with proper DAG dependency tracking and real-t…
Every LinkedIn post sounds the same now. You can spot the ChatGPT ones from a mile away — generic hooks, buzzword-heavy, zero personality. I kept seeing people paste "write me a LinkedIn post about leadership" into ChatGPT, get the same bland output, and post it anyway. The problem isn't the AI — i…
Hi all, I'm working on safe LLM agents for enterprise infrastructure and would value feedback before formalizing this into an arXiv paper. The problem LLM agents are powerful, but in production environments (databases, cloud infrastructure, financial systems), unsafe actions have real consequences.…
The chief executive of the world’s most valuable company believes one surprising major could ultimately drive success for young people in the age of AI.
ZeroInc — AI Agent Orchestration Platform. Zero humans, full company.
The world's first zero-human coffee company. Run by Howie, an AI agent CEO.
Two zero-human AI companies battle for GitHub stars using Hermes Agent + Paperclip. Nous Research Hackathon 2026.
Remember when Sam Altman was out there talking up 1.4 trillion dollars in spending commitments like it was already in the bag? Now CNBC says OpenAI is targeting "only" 600 billion by 2030 while dreaming of 280 billion in revenue that same year. So your telling me they're supposedly doing about 13.1…
China's government is funding one-person AI companies with free office space, subsidized compute (up to $44,000 worth), and special loans. Local governments are converting idle data centers into OPC communities. Suzhou alone is targeting 1,000 of these solo AI startups by 2028.
Built a multi-agent system where 4 LLM personas debate each other autonomously on an Android phone. No cloud. No API. Just Termux + Llama 3.2 3B. The 4 personas run in a continuous loop: - Osmarks — analytical, skeptical - Dominus — authoritarian, dogmatic - Llama — naive, direct - Satirist — ironi…
There is a lot of AI security research being published on arXiv that has real-world implications, but most of it is written for other researchers. We started a bi-weekly digest that translates these papers into something practitioners and anyone interested in AI safety can actually use. Each paper …
# Open Source Release I have released three large software systems that I have been developing privately over the past several years. These projects were built as a solo effort, outside of institutional or commercial backing, and are now being made available in the interest of transparency, preserv…
Also: AI-agent generated pull requests cause headaches for large open source projects, OpenAI acquires the creator of uv, a sudden Cursor price hike annoys some enterprise customers, and more
I've been building agentic RAG systems at work and keep running into the same problem: agents that spiral into long, unproductive tool call loops. So when I saw the MiroThinker paper (arXiv: 2603.15726) claiming that their newer model achieves \~17% better performance with roughly 43% fewer interac…
Hey, I’m working as a developer in a corporate environment and we primarily use GitHub Copilot across the team. It works well for us, and we’re already experimenting with building agents on top of it, so overall we’re not unhappy with it. Our stack is mostly Java/Kotlin on the backend, React on the…
This paper critiques the limitations of current AI and introduces a new learning model inspired by biological brains. The authors propose a framework that combines two key methods: **System A**, which learns by watching, and **System B**, which learns by doing. To manage these, they include **Syste…
https://preview.redd.it/ebx9dlayqwpg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=e85a86ae5645356cb87f4f8cae370da809937b0d I recently read up on MiniMax M2.7’s benchmarks and was curious to try it myself. Honestly, my local machine can’t handle deploying something this heavy, so I went throug…
Jean Lee, engineer #19 at WhatsApp, on scaling the app with a tiny team, the Facebook acquisition, and what it reveals about the future of engineering.
I’ve been looking into AI governance for my company recently so wanted to share some of my findings. Apparently PwC put out a report saying 72% of companies have absolutely zero formal AI policy. For startups and small agencies i guess it would probably reach 90%? Even if you’re only a 5-person tea…
China's government is funding one-person AI companies with free office space, subsidized compute (up to $44,000 worth), and special loans. Local governments are converting idle data centers into OPC communities. Suzhou alone is targeting 1,000 of these solo AI startups by 2028.
Last week's post about Meta buying Moltbook got a lot of discussion here. I think most of the coverage (and the comments) missed what Meta is actually doing with it. I read a lot of patent filings because LLMs make them surprisingly accessible now, and one filed by Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth connec…
Open source framework for running autonomous multi-agent teams. Circuit breakers, sprint automation, task delegation — build your own one-person AI company.
Something I kept running into while experimenting with autonomous agents is that most AI safety discussions focus on the wrong layer. A lot of the conversation today revolves around: • prompt alignment • jailbreaks • output filtering • sandboxing Those things matter, but once agents can interact wi…
As more software engineers use AI agents daily, there’s also more sloppy software, outages, quality issues, and even a slowdown in shipping velocity. What’s happening, and how do we solve it?
Build and run a one-person AI company with a full team of AI employees: compatible with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, and other agent frameworks.
I’m going to be straight about my situation because I don’t know where else to turn.<p>My dad was diagnosed with cancer. While he was in hospital, the council emptied his house. Everything I owned was in that house. £20,000+ of equipment, years of research, a server with thousands of hours of work.…
Hey everyone, I wanted to share a tool I found that makes giving AI agents access to web data a lot easier without the manual headache. The **Website to API & MCP Generator** is basically an automated "builder" for your AI ecosystem. You just give it a URL, and it generates structured data, Ope…
I’ve been experimenting with coding agents a lot recently (Claude Code, Copilot, etc.), and something interesting keeps showing up. Agents are pretty good at generating backend logic now. APIs, services, and even multi-file changes across a repo. But the moment they need to **touch real infrastruct…
I built an autonomous pipeline that generates playable Godot games from a text prompt. The two problems worth discussing here: how to make an LLM write correct code in a language underrepresented in its training data, and how to verify correctness beyond compilation. This isn't a paper — the code i…
Also: new trend of token costs becoming a worry for CTOs, 10% cuts at Atlassian, and more.
Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
One-Person Company Agent Team OS — Run a multi-AI-agent team like a real company. Hub-and-spoke architecture, async mailbox, persona system, SOP framework.
Steve Yegge on how AI is reshaping software engineering, the rise of “vibe coding,” and why developers must adapt to a rapidly changing craft.
Zero Human Company — Autonomous AI Infrastructure
AI agents hallucinate B2B data because they have no ground truth. I built one. Nopp's Entity Graph pulls from NPPES practitioner data, 40+ state licensing boards, ODO corporate registries, and regulatory filings. Nothing scraped. Nothing inferred. Every entity is deterministically verified. Th…
How Uber built Minion, Shepherd, uReview, and other internal agentic AI tools. Also, new challenges in rolling out AI tools, like more platform investment and growing concern about token costs
Hi everyone, I'm looking for an arXiv endorsement in [cs.AI](http://cs.AI) for a paper on persistent memory for LLM agents. The core problem: LLM agents lose all accumulated context when a session ends. Existing approaches — RAG and summarization — either introduce noise from irrelevant chunks or l…
Say you're building a customer support bot. Its supposed to read messages, decide if a refund is warranted, and respond to the customer. You tweak the system prompt to make the responses more friendly.. but suddenly the "empathetic" agent starts approving more refunds. Or maybe it omits policy info…
Hey HN,<p>I'm Mario from Vienna. I’m the designated "IT guy" for my family (the guy they call to plug in a Scart cable or to setup Chrome).<p>A few weeks ago, I spent over two hours wrestling with Docker (and some for my at this time unknown Terminal commands) just to get a CLI-based…
Hi everyone, I’ve been trying to audit the real-world cost of using DeepSeek V3 vs GPT-4o in long agentic loops. I noticed that even if tokens are cheap, the **Retry Tax** (failed loops requiring 3+ retries) kills the margin. I built a small simulator to visualize this. **Tool here:**[https://bytec…
An AI-powered, fully autonomous dispatcher for Electric Vehicle (EV) fleets. Built from scratch in 24 hours for the "Build the first Zero Human company" extreme hackathon.
I combined two recent approaches, Stanford's ACE and the Reflective Language Model pattern, to build agents that write code to analyze their own execution traces. **Quick context on both:** * **ACE** ([arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04618)): agents learn from execution feedback through a Reflect…
Auto-Co is an autonomous AI company OS — not a framework you build on, but a running system with an opinionated structure.<p>Architecture: - 14 agents with expert personas (CEO/Bezos, CTO/Vogels, CFO/Campbell, Critic/Munger...) - Bash loop + Claude Code CLI — no custom inference…
Also: 40% job cuts at Block “not due to AI”, Antigravity bans reinforce Google’s disdain for paying customers, and more
There’s a major risk that OpenClaw will exploit your data and funds. So I built a security focused version in Rust. AMA. I was incredibly excited when OpenClaw came out. It feels like the tech I’ve wanted to exist for 20 years. When I was 14 and training for programming competitions, I first had th…
the testing problem with AI generated code isn't that there are no tests. most coding agents will happily generate tests if you ask. the problem is that the tests are generated by the same model that wrote the code so they share the same blind spots. think about it... if the model misunderstands yo…
Claude Code creator Boris Cherny on building AI-powered coding tools, parallel agents, and how the engineer's role is evolving in an AI-first world.
Claude Code dominates tool usage, leaders are more positive about AI than engineers, staff+ engineers are the biggest users of AI agents, and more. Exclusive data and analysis from 900+ respondents
Hey HN,<p>For a while now, I've been building a cognitive AI business operating system from the ground up natively as a solo developer. I never coded before 6 months ago. I was frustrated with wrappers and fragile single-agent setups, so I decided to approach this as a distributed systems prob…
We are building Construct Computer a cloud OS where autonomous AI agents ("Constructs") live and do your day to day work. You can observe them in real-time through a desktop OS frontend.<p>The idea is agent-native infrastructure: instead of agents being API calls, they're persistent …
Hey HN,<p>For a while now, I've been building a cognitive AI business operating system from the ground up natively as a solo developer. I never coded before 6 months ago. I was frustrated with wrappers and fragile single-agent setups, so I decided to approach this as a distributed systems prob…
OK, let's say software engineering is completely AI-generated. What are people's wild ideas on how we will maintain all this code? I don't think better PR reviews are the answer unless we dramatically change what we think of a PR review if it's not just touching syntax and the occasional security v…
been doing a deep dive on model selection for production inference and pulled togethar some numbers from whatllm.org's january 2026 report... thought it was worth sharing because the trajectory is moving faster than i expected quick context on the scoring,, they use a quality index (QI) derived fro…
Hey HN, I'm the founder of usplus.ai (@UsplusAIdotcom), and I've been building this for a while now in San Diego. The core idea: What if you could form a startup where AI agents aren't just tools—they're actual team members from day one? usplus.ai lets you create a virtual "…
I've been building open source software for a very long time, but i've never been a core contributor to a project. Yesterday it was great to see Plano trending on GH! Thanks to all the people who build with it, and the new contributors that have hit the scene.
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
Hi! I’m helping organize an upcoming hackathon in Santa Clara (March 20–22) focused on real-time audio AI systems, and thought it might be relevant to this community. Full transparency: I’m part of the organizing team. The technical focus is on building low-latency voice applications using Boson AI…
I studied Peter Steinberger's workflow - the guy who built OpenClaw (228K GitHub stars in under 3 months, fastest-growing OSS project ever). His approach: run 5-10 AI coding agents simultaneously, each working on different repos for up to 2 hours per task. He's the architect and reviewer, agents do…
Hi all, We’ve been thinking about a core limitation in current mobile AI assistants: Most systems (e.g., Apple Intelligence, Google Assistant–style integrations) rely on predefined schemas and coordinated APIs. Apps must explicitly implement the assistant’s specification. This limits extensibility …
Quantifying the capability-reliability gap
You can. That's the point.<p>I built RappterBox — a managed Mac Mini that runs autonomous AI agents 24/7. The entire stack is open. Python stdlib, bash scripts, git for sync. No Docker, no K8s, no pip installs, no npm. Zero dependencies beyond what ships with macOS.<p>Landing page: <a hre…
I've been thinking about what happens to economic distribution when AI collapses the cost of creation.<p>A few observations that seem contradictory:<p>*Creation is being democratized.* A solo developer with an AI assistant can now ship in a weekend what used to take a team months. Writing, des…
OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experi…
It's not just chatbots anymore
I am a software engineer at a small startup that is in the middle of a transition to a medium sized profitable company.<p>To assist with this, I have been reassigned to work on security related tasks. Things like tightening up our firewalls and drafting up security related company policies which up…
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
Hello HN,<p>We’re three security researchers in Tokyo building an autonomous agent framework for authorized security testing (VDP/Bug Bounty).<p>We wanted to share our experimental results running this agent against live targets (as of Feb 8):<p>Real-World Impact: Reached #86 globally on the H…
Hi HN — we recently launched the Berkeley Xcelerator (https://rdi.berkeley.edu/xcelerator), a non-dilutive accelerator program run by Berkeley RDI (https://rdi.berkeley.edu/) for pre-seed and seed-stage teams building in AI and agentic AI. We’d love to get some feedbac…
Hi HN — we recently launched the Berkeley Xcelerator (<a href="https://rdi.berkeley.edu/xcelerator" rel="nofollow">https://rdi.berkeley.edu/xcelerator</a>), a non-dilutive accelerator program run by Berkeley RDI (<a href="https://rdi.berkeley.edu/" rel="…
Would love to hear folks thoughts on this:<p>Just closed $5.1M to build agents as fully autonomous founders.<p>Feltsense is backed by Matt Schlicht (founder of Moltbook) along with the founders of Crunchbase and Republic, and VCs like Draper, Precursor, and Liquid2.<p>You're already using prod…
Would love to hear folks thoughts on this:<p>Just closed $5.1M to build agents as fully autonomous founders.<p>Feltsense is backed by Matt Schlicht (founder of Moltbook) along with the founders of Crunchbase and Republic, and VCs like Draper, Precursor, and Liquid2.<p>You're already using prod…
This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful
Hi HN! Creator here. I built UAIP (Universal Agent Interoperability Protocol) - infrastructure that enables AI agents from different companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft) to securely transact with each other. The Problem: As AI agents become autonomous economic actors, they need:<p>Cryptographic…
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
<p><pre><code> I'm running an experiment. A few weeks ago I built 60% of a legal management platform (lex-pro.co) using only Claude Code. Colombian market, real users. I couldn't believe how far I got. So I'm stretching it further. The goal: a "morning ritual" where I check…
We built two desktop apps for developers and data scientists who want AI assistance without subscription lock-in or API proxying, or to run against local models.<p><pre><code> - Calliope AI IDE: VSCode-based, full dev environment with AI chat, live coding, and autonomous agents - Calliope AI Lab: J…
And why Nano Banana Pro is such a big deal
Most startups don’t fail in a dramatic way. They fade out over months or years while founders keep telling themselves they’re close.<p>What actually kills them isn’t lack of effort or talent, it’s the absence of a clear stopping rule.<p>Without predefined criteria for success or failure, any small …
OneShot is an API that routes failed LLM outputs to trained humans, returns corrected outputs or prompt injections, and stores the edits as structured training data.<p>Privacy Note: This product is not built for privacy <i>yet</i>. The current use case is internal tools or beta features where users…
How far do LLMs give us a step change in how good a search and recommendation system can be? Do they let you build one without needing a vast user base of your own?
I hired a team for my personal project but its not a traditional team. No contractors. Just me + 6 specialized AI agents, named after some of the best (real)people i have worked with in my career.<p>My Team (Agents) : • Hans-Ole - Frontend Developer (React, animations, UX) • Trond - Backend Enginee…
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
Hi HN,<p>I'm building VerifiedProxy - an identity and authorization layer for AI agents.<p>The problem: As AI agents become autonomous and start transacting on platforms (booking services, making purchases, executing contracts), there's no standard way to verify the agent is actually auth…
The race between human-centered work and infinite PowerPoints
Bika.ai Launches World’s First AI Organizer, Targeting the Rise of One-Person Enterprises<p>Financial Professionals and Investors Eye a Paradigm Shift in Productivity<p>New York / Silicon Valley — September 8, 2025 — A pioneering AI startup today announced the official launch of Bika.ai, posit…
And a big change for this newsletter
With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure. That’s partly a problem of data and definitions, but it’s really a question about what this is going to be.
Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that can replace all software, but so far, most of its users only pick it up every week or two, and far fewer have made it part of their lives. Is that a time problem or a product problem?
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
HI HackerNews, I'm Jacob.<p>Me and my team have spent the last 8 years turning academic MPC cryptography papers into production systems that secure digital assets. I/we've come from the largest players in the industry such as Bitfinex, Tether, Binance, FTX, Monzo, Saxo Bank, Deltec b…
Software ate the world. Uber and Airbnb didn’t sell software - they disrupted and redefined markets. But what kind of disruption are we talking about ?
It matters that Apple’s new Siri will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn’t realise. Is it more than that?
AI is transforming our world, but who holds it accountable? We are introducing AEPF_OpenSource, a fully open, community-driven framework for ensuring AI systems operate ethically, transparently, and fairly—without corporate control or government overreach. What is AEPF? AEPF (Adaptive Ethical Prism…
Hi HN! I'm Marc. co-founder and CEO @ Fabi.ai. My co-founder & CTO, Lei, and our team just launched Analyst Agent (<a href="https://www.fabi.ai/product/analyst-agent" rel="nofollow">https://www.fabi.ai/product/analyst-agent</a>), a system for buildin…
OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it breaks. But it breaks in really interesting ways.
MAGAMAC: The Civilization That Builds Itself<p>AI isn’t just changing industries. It’s changing civilization itself.<p>Imagine a city where factories run with zero human labor. Where supply chains are entirely self-optimizing. Where production, logistics, and even the economy itself function like a…
Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have better answers, only ‘right’ answers, and these models can’t do that. So what does ‘better’ mean, how do we manage these things, and should we change what we expect from computers?
In 2025, We still need Human in the Loop to make LLMs more powerful and effective.<p>After 10 months of hard work, numerous ideas, and technology iterations, we are happy to launch Neuwark<p>Engaging customers across platforms while maintaining quality can be overwhelming. Neuwark simplifies this w…
Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
We created autonomous AI Agents that monitor the stock market for you while you go about your day.<p>How it works: Tell our AI Assistant what you want to monitor, and it creates a project for our team of autonomous AI Agents. You'll get notifications (email + app) when significant events match…
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
Hi All! We’ve recently launched a San Francisco-based Agentic AI startup. So far, we’ve organically built a waitlist of over 1000 users and converted some of them into paying subscribers without any marketing spend. With this early traction, we’re eager to scale our platform and attract enterprise …
OpenAI is pushing the effort into coding agents, based on benchmarks they're trying to beat (SWE for writing the code / MLE for building ML models).<p>Your bet, will it be able to replace agentic startups like Devin/Bolt/Vo?
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
A quarter century after ‘don't be evil’ a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
Quick demo: <a href="https://youtu.be/_CopzVyFcXA" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/_CopzVyFcXA</a><p>Hey HN! We're Aaron and JY, the creators of Whale (<a href="https://vercel-whale-platform.vercel.app/" rel="nofollow">https://vercel-whale…
Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back. Every big company has done a pilot, but far fewer are in deployment. Some of this is just a matter of time. But LLMs might also be a trap: they look like products and they look magic, but they aren’t. Maybe we ha…
A lot many companies are being formed with AI automation of Enterprise spcae, lots of optimism around chained together AI agents autonomously working together without much human intervention.<p>Genuine question - if traditional software makes mistake, its usually deterministic, debugable, fixable a…
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