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- 1Hackers Ask: Is Anyone Producing Good Code With AI Agents?▼Ask HN: Is anybody producing good code with coding agents?
A question on Hacker News asks whether developers are actually producing good code with coding agents like AI assistants that write code autonomously. The poster, ruffrey, wants concrete examples of success rather than hype. The discussion, which drew modest engagement, touches a live nerve in software engineering as teams weigh productivity gains against quality and review overhead from AI-generated code.
- 2Corral: open-source tool kills all commands started by AI agents●Show HN: Corral – Kill every command your agent starts
A developer has released Corral, an open-source tool that kills every command started by an AI coding agent. It was shared on Hacker News as a Show HN project, drawing attention and engagement from the community. The tool addresses a growing concern among developers that autonomous agents can spawn processes that keep running unnoticed, and it offers a simple way to clean them all up at once.
- 3Television launches as open source GUI for coding agents●Show HN: Television – an open source GUI for your agent harness
A new open source project called Television offers a graphical interface for managing AI coding agent harnesses, the tools developers use to run autonomous coding agents. The project was shared with the developer community and pointed to its website at television.run. Early reactions are limited so far, with modest engagement, but the project taps into growing interest in giving developers friendlier, visual ways to supervise and control multiple coding agents.
- 4Developer ditches code review for AI agents, tries new approach●I stopped reviewing my agents' code. Here's what I do instead Article URL: https:// alexeyindeev.substack.com/p/i- stopp
Engineer Alexey Indeev has written that he no longer reviews code produced by his AI agents, and describes the alternative workflow he uses instead in a Substack essay. The piece has drawn modest attention on Hacker News, where developers are weighing whether traditional code review still makes sense as more work is delegated to autonomous coding agents.
- 5Agent37 Launches Low-Cost Sandbox For Coding AI Agents▼Run Claude Code, Codex, Hermes And OpenClaw For 95% Less: Agent37 Founder Vishnu Krishnaprasad On The Affordable Agent Sandbox
Agent37, founded by Vishnu Krishnaprasad, is promoting a sandbox service that lets developers run AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Hermes and OpenClaw at a claimed 95% cost reduction. The startup positions itself as an affordable alternative for teams running multiple autonomous coding agents, where compute and API expenses can otherwise be substantial.
- 6DoorDash Runs 130,000 Engineering Tasks Through Cloud-Based AI Agents●DoorDash’s Flux Runs 130,000 Engineering Tasks through Cloud-Based Agents DoorDash moved engineering agent tasks from la
DoorDash has moved its AI engineering agents from developers' laptops to Flux, a cloud-based platform that now handles around 130,000 automated tasks a month, including roughly 25,000 weekly code reviews. The system runs agents in isolated micro virtual machines and cloud sandboxes designed to keep autonomous code operations secure. The scale of deployment is drawing attention as one of the larger corporate examples of AI agents doing routine software engineering work.
- 7PixelLeak: AI coding agents leak 13,000 internal screenshots●PixelLeak: AI Coding Agents Expose 13,000 Internal Screenshots, Including Billing Information, on Public GitHub Reposito
A disclosure dubbed PixelLeak reports that AI coding agents posted more than 13,000 internal screenshots, including billing information, to public GitHub repositories. The images apparently captured confidential company data when developers used AI assistants that committed files without adequate safeguards. Commenters in developer and AI communities are treating it as a warning about the risks of granting autonomous coding tools broad access to sensitive environments.
Repos
- paperclipai/paperclip The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work
- addyosmani/agent-skills Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.
- obra/superpowers An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
- devdotfast/whiteboard open-source canvas for thoughtful software design
- vincentsch/explainroo Explainer videos and product demos made by your AI agent. Free and open source: a local voice (Kokoro), word timing (Whi