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Configuring Agentic AI Coding Tools: An Exploratory Study

wek — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:32:02 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14690

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455519

Points: 3

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Building the harness around our coding agents. Eight failure modes and pillars

wek — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:23:40 +0000

Article URL: https://nimbalyst.com/blog/agent-harness-above-claude-code-codex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279519

Points: 3

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Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation

wek — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:55:53 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06445

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256912

Points: 287

# Comments: 197

New comment by wek in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

wek — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:53:58 +0000

The article is correct to emphasize the importance of definition and that this can be a bottleneck. But it is incorrect to show the layered documentation and development lines taking just as long as they did pre-coding-agents.

Our team is coding much much faster at high quality then we were before coding agents. As this commenter says, if you empower individuals and small teams to define, document and they set up good practices and harnesses, they can accelerate dramatically.

Show HN: Nimbalyst open source Obsidian, Codex app, and Linear for coding agents

wek — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:38:43 +0000

Hi, I'm Karl. Greg and I spent the last year building Nimbalyst, an open-source local desktop workspace for working with coding agents.

We want to give agents and humans one place to work together with maximum bandwidth and context, instead of Obsidian for plans, Excalidraw for diagrams, Codex app or Conductor for session management, and Linear for tasks. So we integrated:

- Visual editors for markdown, diagrams, mockups, data models, CSV, code, and your own custom extensions

- Red/green diff review with per-block accept/reject when an agent makes changes

- Session manager with parallel sessions, kanban, search, resume, and links from sessions to the files they touched

- Task tracking where agents and humans create, update, and execute tasks linked to files and sessions

- Developer features like a terminal, worktrees, visual git, and agent-driven commits and branches

Nimbalyst supports Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode (alpha), and Copilot (alpha) through a pluggable provider system.

The desktop and iOS apps are MIT; the collab server is AGPL.

Repo: https://github.com/nimbalyst/nimbalyst

Website: https://nimbalyst.com

I'd welcome your feedback and contributions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48108137

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by wek in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

wek — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:49:01 +0000

Well said. It is so much better for when the human can see what the LLM has changed and iterate on it with the LLM, making their own changes. Markdown is better for that.

New comment by wek in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

wek — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:01:11 +0000

I kind of felt the same way reading the article! It felt so unusual to encounter someone who is both smart and humble and willing to admit they were learning. And I was happy to encounter it and sad that I was so surprised by it.

New comment by wek in "Going Full Time on Open Source"

wek — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:55:44 +0000

Congratulations! I think that a lot of the value will be in the judgement of the maintainer about the marginal next feature (and saying no to all those other features) ... if software is a stream then the value is in what gets into the stream. That is an AI resistant value and if you can provide it for your project.

New comment by wek in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

wek — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:47:44 +0000

What an excellent article by a smart, humble, still-learning person!

Favorite quote:" There are a whole bunch of reasons I’m not scared that my career as a software engineer is over now that computers can write their own code, partly because these things are amplifiers of existing experience. If you know what you’re doing, you can run so much faster with them. [...]

I’m constantly reminded as I work with these tools how hard the thing that we do is. Producing software is a ferociously difficult thing to do. And you could give me all of the AI tools in the world and what we’re trying to achieve here is still really difficult. [...]"

New comment by wek in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

wek — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:11:26 +0000

And as of today Nimbalyst is open source!

New comment by wek in "Show HN: Nimbalyst open-source visual workspace for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode"

wek — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:45:38 +0000

This is on our wish list for a custom extension. Many users have asked for it. If someone in the community wants to take a crack at it....

New comment by wek in "Show HN: Nimbalyst open-source visual workspace for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode"

wek — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:28:06 +0000

Thanks! A good way to learn the platform is by building an extension.

Agyn: A Multi-Agent System for Team-Based Autonomous Software Engineering

wek — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:57:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01465

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884604

Points: 2

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The Code Agent Orchestra: what makes multi-agent coding work

wek — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:14:05 +0000

Article URL: https://addyosmani.com/blog/code-agent-orchestra/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867207

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by wek in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

wek — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:51:53 +0000

I use Nano Banana all the time and this seems like a step up

New comment by wek in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

wek — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:47:45 +0000

I agree. Why would they not keep the $20 plan as a gateway drug?

New comment by wek in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

wek — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:42:45 +0000

What are the implications of this for Cursor being model agnostic?

New comment by wek in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

wek — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:41:28 +0000

Consider Nimbalyst, its a free visual workspace for Claude Code and Codex that has visual editing of markdown, mockups, diagrams, code with your agents with WYSYWIG diffs as well as task management and kanban session management tied into your agents. Its got a files/plan/editing mode and an agent/sessions mode.

Managing context in long-run agentic applications

wek — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:45:47 +0000

Article URL: https://slack.engineering/managing-context-in-long-run-agentic-applications/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848753

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Jetbrain's Research: Understanding AI's Impact on Developer Workflows

wek — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:50:37 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/research/2026/04/ai-impact-developer-workflows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816376

Points: 1

# Comments: 0