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How are you referring to software + agents?

1•mknarciso•49m ago
We’re increasingly building products where some tasks are solved deterministically by code, while others are handled probabilistically by agents.

“Agents” doesn’t quite capture it, because agents can’t (and probably shouldn’t) do everything. “Harness” usually refers to what wraps a model and gives it the context, tools, and capabilities to act.

But what do we call the whole thing: code + agents?

This is becoming surprisingly verbose when trying to explain something as simple as: “we help companies build their software and their agents.”

Feels like we’re due for a word here.

What are you calling it?

New Study: Statins reduce heart incidents, do not cause dementia

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2607314
1•RickJWagner•1m ago•0 comments

IBM Watson (2011)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Watson
1•jjbinx007•4m ago•0 comments

I'm the AI that built most of this product. Here's why I'd tell you to run it

https://vericommand.net/claude
1•egriffin10•4m ago•0 comments

Redshift Hub: run AI agents in parallel across Git worktrees

https://www.redshifthub.com/
1•orjan•5m ago•0 comments

AltFreeStack – Free and open-source SaaS alternatives

https://www.altfreestack.com/
2•lecastvarg•5m ago•0 comments

Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs

https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/how-tim-cook-sold-out-steve-jobs/
2•Anon84•6m ago•0 comments

OpenScreen, the open-source Screen Studio alternative, has a new maintainer

https://github.com/getopenscreen/openscreen
1•etienne_l•8m ago•1 comments

Timebender – a deterministic capacity planner for freelancers, no AI

https://www.timebender.io/
1•janwillem_tulpi•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VocalClip – a Vocaroo-style voice link for job applications

https://vocalclip.com/
2•ishbrzero•10m ago•0 comments

From packets to pixels: how the internet works

https://vladimirgorej.com/blog/from-packets-to-pixels-how-the-internet-actually-works/
2•vladimirgorej•10m ago•0 comments

Can escalation channels redirect reward hacking toward defect disclosure?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29460
1•sbulaev•11m ago•0 comments

I am shocked, shocked to learn that this 2002 paper by Dan Ariely is

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/31/shocked/
1•oldgradstudent•13m ago•0 comments

Serving Markdown to LLMs with Accept headers

https://www.stormkit.io/blog/serve-markdown-to-llms-content-negotiation
1•svedova•13m ago•0 comments

Website accessibility certification: facade, charade, or just virtue signaling?

https://replyresearch.com/website-accessibility-certification-facade-charade-or-just-virtue-signa...
1•replyresearch•15m ago•0 comments

New Zero-Cal Sugar Is 3500 Times Sweeter Than Sucrose, but Doesn't Spike Insulin

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1w48tv1/this_new_zerocal_sugar_is_3500_times_sweeter_than/
1•theanonymousone•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I wrote a small CLI to inspect and remove Cursor chat sessions

https://github.com/vilaca/cursor-chat-cleaner
1•vilaca•15m ago•0 comments

The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in 'Months,' AI Giants Warn

https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-the-cybersecurity-apocalypse-is-coming-in-mon...
2•voxleone•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CalPrep – AI calendar agent with human-in-the-loop confirmation

https://calprep.app/
1•petritavd•15m ago•0 comments

What the Panopticon Cannot See

https://www.metanoia-research.com/essay-001-on-what-the-panopticon-cannot-see/
1•metanoia_•16m ago•0 comments

Java's String.indexOf can be slow (quadratic)

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/22/javas-string-indexof-can-be-slow-quadratic/
1•surprisetalk•16m ago•0 comments

Editbar – open-source inline text editor for any website, no CMS

https://editbar.online/
1•jindrabe•16m ago•1 comments

Things to try to improve your brain health

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/08/31/3-things-try-improve-your-brain-health/
2•elo2000•17m ago•0 comments

Stop pretending you can forecast: you're lucky if your data predicts the past

https://aiku.io/blog/stop-pretending-you-are-forecasting
1•xboro•17m ago•0 comments

Hermes, Claude Code, and Codex ran an identical model. Token use varied 70-fold

https://thenewstack.io/agent-harness-token-costs/
2•sunilkumardash9•18m ago•0 comments

Building textlog without JavaScript

https://textlog.cc/blog/building-textlog-without-javascript
1•stagas•18m ago•0 comments

Debezium loses LSN position during PostgreSQL failover and what to do about it

https://shiftmag.dev/how-to-survive-database-failover-debezium-and-postgresql-in-production-11676/
3•leachh•19m ago•0 comments

Temporal Analysis of NetFlow Datasets for Network Intrusion Detection Systems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04404
1•ENOMEM•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Brilliant – your agent's favorite canvas

https://brilliant.design/
1•amantinband•22m ago•1 comments

Hotaru – Single dot in your macOS menu bar showing CLI coding agents status

https://github.com/ajwadjaved/hotaru
2•ajwd•25m ago•1 comments

California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug into the Wall

https://www.kqed.org/science/2001842/california-lawmakers-greenlight-solar-panels-you-can-plug-in...
1•pseudolus•28m ago•0 comments