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Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments

https://github.com/ascorbic/am-i-vibing
53•ascorbic•12h ago

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ritzaco•9h ago
This seems like a really bad idea. Agents need to adapt to get good at using tools designed for humans (we have a lot), or use tools specifically designed for agents (soon we will have lots).

But to make your tool behave differently just causes confusion if a human tries something and then gets an agent to take over or vice versa.

hoistbypetard•7h ago
On the other hand, if you want to make your tool detect an agent and try a little prompt injection, or otherwise attempt to make the LLM misbehave, this seems like an excellent approach.
kristianc•6h ago
In other words, a supply chain attack? Let's call it what it is.
hoistbypetard•6h ago
I think the term "supply chain attack" is frequently overused, and if I were feeling cantankerous, I might split hairs and argue that I was framing it more as a "watering hole attack" instead. But I agree that it could also be framed as a "supply chain attack", and you seem to have correctly realized that I was suggesting this was an excellent approach to either attack people using LLMs connected to agentic tooling or to render your gadget incompatible with such usage, if that was your goal.

I do not think it's a particularly good way to assist such users.

JoshTriplett•7h ago
This seems like a really good idea for projects that reject AI-written code, to detect and early-fail in such environments.
ethan_smith•3h ago
Tools can maintain consistent interfaces while still providing agent-aware optimizations through metadata or output formatting that doesn't disrupt the human experience.
petesergeant•8h ago
Neat! I might monkey patch vitest to show full diffs for expect when being used by an agent
mrKola•7h ago
Wasted opportunity to call it: vibrator
SequoiaHope•6h ago
Leaves the name available for a buttplug.io agentic interface plugin.
pryelluw•5h ago
colon.ai has a nice vibe to it.
Larrikin•2h ago
I was working on an Android project and needed to add specific vibration patterns for different actions. Our company was maybe a week into our exploration of LLM tools and they still really sucked. I kept getting failures trying to get any thing useful to output. So I dug into the docs and just started doing it all myself. Then I found some Android engineer had named the base functionality Vibrator back in one of the earliest SDKs.

Thee LLM was actually implementing nearly everything, finding the term vibrator, and was then erasing its output.

mhuffman•2h ago
Vibe-Rater
ofirg•7h ago
i'm this old: i don't think you should name packages in SWE with names that you will eventually cave in and change if the project gets real use.
Retr0id•7h ago
why would this one need to be changed?
ascorbic•7h ago
This isn't something that's going to need to be in a pitch deck. It's the second open source library I've released this week. But even if it was serious, if Hugging Face hasn't changed its name then I think this is fine
deadbabe•7h ago
It’s still a ridiculous choice for a name, look at stuff like ScuttleButt whose adoption is only hurt by its crappy name that few people want to bring up in public.
mattigames•7h ago
Dead babe has a good point there.
ljlolel•4h ago
Can’t stop laughing
johncole•4h ago
Lol
maxbond•5h ago
I feel I'd be remiss if I didn't suggest the name "vibe check." (The name doesn't bother me personally, for whatever that's worth.)
Timwi•2h ago
The proposed approach has a large number of drawbacks:

* It's not reliable, the project’s own readme mentions false positives.

* It adds a source of confusion where an AI agent tells the user that the CLI tool said X, but running it manually with the same command line gives something different.

* The user can't manually access the functionality even if they want to.

Much better to just have an explicit option to enable the new behaviors and teach the AI to use that where appropriate.

SudoSuccubus•1h ago
Good luck detecting things. Guess what. None of your fucking business. It works, it works. You didn't like that. Go fuck yourself. It's like "anti cheating" shit in academia. I get some random output from things. All I do is have a sample of things I want to mimic and any style I have. I can tell Abby system to make it not sound like itself.

Just be honest. You're failing in this "fat the man, man" thing on AI and llms.

It's better to work with the future than pretend that being a Luddite will work in the long run

toobulkeh•1h ago
It has nothing to do as a “gotcha”. It’s about improving error codes and other interactions for agentic editors.
CaptainFever•1h ago
This library envisions cooperative results, like a code giving extra context to AI agents if it detects it is in an agentic environment, but I worry that some people may try to use this to restrict others.

I guess in that scenario, AI agents would have a project-specific "stealth mode" to protect the user.

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