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AI From the Trenches: Why Its Brilliance and Failures Share the Same Root

I spent more than 2,000 hours across seven months building a live platform with AI as my only technical partner. I had no software development background going in. Throughout the build, I repeatedly encountered the same six failure modes: Band-Aid: Fixing the symptom instead of the cause Assumption: Filling a gap with what should be true instead of checking what actually is Drift: Quietly changing the scope or structure without saying so Hallucination: Inventing something ins...
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Are AIgenerated game worlds actually fun or just impressive for 30 seconds?

Google Genie 3 got a lot of attention this week and the demos look wild, but I keep thinking about the gap between visually coherent and actually playable. Watching someone walk through a generated open world that technically holds together is cool. Playing it for an hour is a different question entirely. What makes games interesting isn't visual fidelity or even world size. It's the density of things that reward curiosity. Handcrafted secrets, enemy placement that forces you to think, dialogu...
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Why I Build The Website Before Asking For Payment

I’ve been in contact with a lot of web agencies and web developers, and I personally haven’t found many people who run their agency in a more efficient way than I do. A lot of them have too many meetings, wait too long for client approval, don’t know how to price projects, and spend way too much time on each client instead of finishing the work and moving on to the next one. I’ve been running my agency for four years, and after a lot of trial and error, I’ve managed to make the process as effi...
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an AI agent got prompt-injected into moving $175K on-chain. first documented case of this actually happening

Hey guys, havent seen much of crypto-related stuff posted here, but since AI agents are now apparently a new attack vector for stealing crypto, figured this sub would actually care about the mechanism So, grok has an agent wallet that can execute on-chain transactions. in may 2026, someone airdropped a "bankr club" membership nft to grok's agent wallet. that nft unlocked transaction permissions and carried an encoded prompt injection. grok read the nft, and without any check on where...
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What months of breaking agents in production taught me about why simple builds win

When the hype around autonomous multi-agent swarms started, I built a complex assistant to plan, execute and self-correct workflows end to end. Within weeks of live deployment, it became an unmaintainable token pit that got lost four steps deep into reasoning loops and quietly failed without throwing errors. It quickly became clear that the hardest part of building real agents isn't making the model smarter but building external guardrails that keep the system on the rails when the LLM strays. ...
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Sutskever's List AMA

Hi r/ artificial I’m Rich Heimann. I’ll be answering questions about Sutskever’s List here throughout the day on July 28. Looking forward to the discussion. https://preview.redd.it/2t1q10jj7seh1.png?width=696&format=png&auto=webp&s=ce3f1d9d6ccea5ec10c81a66ee2ead124fc0af30
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Securing AI Using Zero Trust Principles

Article URL: https://www.ciscopress.com/store/securing-ai-using-zero-trust-principles-9780138363321 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007325 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Foomchat – an AI chat where the interface is whatever you want

I had this idea a while ago: these language models write decent code now — enough to quickly prototype different ways their own interfaces could work. So why keep reinventing the wheel separately? Combine it: a chat interface where, within the interface, you simply ask the model for the interface changes you want. That's Foomchat. You ask for messages rendered a certain way, a font, your own theme, a timer in the sidebar — you describe it, the model codes it, and it's installed live in the app. ...
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A conversation becomes an AI agent's memory

Article URL: https://squidler.io/blog/agent-memory-2-capture Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007502 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Langy, an automated AI engineer (we gave it a robot body) [video]

Founder here. Langy is an AI engineer that lives inside our platform, LangWatch. It reads your production traces, writes Scenario tests and evaluations for the problems it finds, opens a pull request on your repo, and proves the fix by running those simulations in CI. A human still merges. Reachy robot from Hugging Face arrived on the same week we were planing on launching it, so we wanted to use for the launch. So we it wired to our Langy which actually lives on the platform, and asked it to te...
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The operational risk of AI coding agents in B2B SaaS

Article URL: https://dev.jimgrey.net/2026/07/22/the-operational-risk-of-ai-coding-agents-in-b2b-saas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007858 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Anakin – API for your AI agents to access the most difficult websites

Every second thing I build needs to access the web, and I was frustrated with not finding something that just works all the time. With my team, we built this because I wanted to enable access to extremely difficult websites and apps for every AI agent. We have solved this cat-and-mouse problem with self-healing built in. It's one API to get data from hostile sites, and it can do easy sites too. You POST a URL and get back Markdown, JSON, HTML, a screenshot, or all of them. That same call handles...
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Show HN: AI resume spam ruined hiring so I built a tool to keep the bots out

Employers are facing a growing wave of automated AI submissions, fake applications, and low-effort spam. It’s not unusual for recruiters and hiring managers to receive thousands of resumes within hours of posting a job. Qualified candidates can easily get drowned out by all the noise. Permanym introduces just enough friction into the application process to make automated abuse impractical, without getting too much in the way of legitimate applicants. As a former hiring manager, the idea of addin...