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Ask HN: Useful (Non-Coding) Agents?

2•qaboutthat•20h ago
While not every programmer agrees, a huge number of them feel like they are getting tremendous value from coding agents. Certainly that is my experience.

However, I have yet to find something that is both "agentic" (in terms of the experience of using it) and useful -- in fact, not only are most "agents" less than useless, they are so frustrating I want to scream at my computer. (I'm thinking in particular of the Delta chatbot).

So, who has examples of agents put to real and good use in (non-programming) software, that are as powerful and valuable as Claude?

Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

233•kwar13•21h ago•328 comments

Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents?

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Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

217•meridion•1d ago•351 comments

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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2•varshith17•5h ago•2 comments

Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point

5•funnyfoobar•6h ago•14 comments

Postgres for everything, does it work?

5•saisrirampur•9h ago•3 comments

Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

454•nishilpatel•4d ago•134 comments

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Ask HN: Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development?

4•theanonymousone•15h ago•5 comments

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60•KellyCriterion•1d ago•26 comments

Are you verifying that products are readable by AI shopping

2•David_0101•17h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?

18•gist•2d ago•31 comments

Looking for Decent Conversation?

101•kmstout•2d ago•14 comments

Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?

58•antfie•4d ago•57 comments

Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs

14•fud101•2d ago•5 comments

Ask HN: Useful (Non-Coding) Agents?

2•qaboutthat•20h ago•0 comments

Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal

63•apatheticonion•3d ago•29 comments

Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?

26•yesitcan•2d ago•21 comments

Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff

49•creativesage•2d ago•30 comments

Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?

133•scapbi•4d ago•66 comments

Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?

22•allenleee•5d ago•21 comments

Ask HN: Oberon et al., vs. Rust

17•mikethe•4d ago•30 comments

Ask HN: People who tried both, how does Waymo compare to Tesla Robotaxi?

6•Austin_Conlon•12h ago•2 comments

Ask HN: What do you consider fun?

22•IndySun•1d ago•13 comments

Ask HN: Why Do You Blog?

20•onesandofgrain•1d ago•11 comments

Are students replacing laptops with iPads in 2026?

4•xthe•1d ago•6 comments

Ask HN: What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025?

23•hopefully_can•1d ago•2 comments

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

19•teruakohatu•3d ago•4 comments

Tell HN: Math academy and iPad and sleep issues solved = me learning math

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