sebringj

Our brains take time to ingest things and learn and using an AI tool to make decisions when taking in vast inputs of data requires then an overview of those decisions and understanding to some degree of care. If you don't take the time to go over these decisions and understand them and weigh them and course correct as needed, then you are offloading too much. You will become this approver buffer in between claude and nothing more if you don't have this methodical checking and understanding.

What is frightening is with something like neuralink that in a future hypothetical time would have very fast capability to keep informed and advised, you could be a zombie decision maker and nobody would really be able to tell. Even when you were pressed to why you made the decision, it's just another AI response, it's like a con artist or imposter dream scenario.

I noticed that atm, before these crazy hypotheticals potentially happen, the people that seem to take the time to understand things deeper are still way more valuable than those that just use tools more than not. Its obvious atm due to the lag in time and the way people respond in meetings, at least for now. :)

with coding, you have sort of a framework for doing it right, if you have good specs, good testing practices, strict grounding in expected results deterministically, good linting, etc... this is much easier to automate with AI for the coding part within that assuming you did your homework around it... i don't have experience with all the business layers but it seems a bit more nuanced and fuzzy as you get away from that "harness" of sorts as it doesn't have to work in the same way as code for execution and evaluation... and even if code works, it still needs tastemakers in the final ok. maybe the taste maker ability still needs a lot of work/scale to be feasible, idk, like its still earlier than later on that. maybe Elon already cracked this to an extent given his automation in various companies.

i see this and think about Suno's playbook where this could go... survival of the fittest rules the boards where you have user-generated-dynamic video games, not just static ones where design is fixed, the design will be adaptive... based off several prompt input boxes for various things and adhoc while playing, higher tier design boards and the like, this is all going toward user-gen commercial / vanity / personal enjoyment.

so was I then I got the job... i think it's innovative because bots are just filling these out anyway, being mad at a tech company for building tech, that's like calling the kettle well a kettle.

I do too care about this but I say this in the reality in which we are. This reminds me of those signs "no shirt, no shoes, no service" except it's much worse, only sentient beings will actually care about it, while non-sentients will simply trample over the sign while token predicted laughter erupts from their token predicted sense of humor artifact.

Elon said it well, there must be some disincentive to do this.

Isn't this more about identity crisis? Not in the psychological sense but in the internet sense? Who is real who isn't? Crypto proof of work idk? Your profile like d LinkedIn or Hacker News or something gives your clawbot x credits worth of legit automated queries or rate limits on your behalf? It could be flipped upside down where we don't spend our eyes off on reading websites anymore, it just goes and gets it for us but I may be hallucinating.

ah right, thanks for commenting though, nice to see some life... once you submit they don't allow URL field to be adjusted.

https://sebringj.github.io/autonomo/

i get it but what else do you call it right now? its like a full stack dev that builds chatbots with apis and streaming and context fixes, it's a confusing term because it hints at ML core but then you see what they want and there is no model training/inference usually involved. Maybe "AI Fullstack?" idk either but I literally have been doing this over the last 2 years but ya ended up doing model training/inference too but the IMO obtuse leadership didn't want it.

so I made this and frankly i was in shock that it worked so well, so i decided to make it plugable as an MCP, i have used this approach for 3 projects now and I frankly can't live without it. I hope other people find it useful but ya you never know. Coding in a vacuum isn't useful so lmk what you think if you try it out etc.

ah gotcha... i was picturing like this massive web page that was dog slow that you just like made mad fast... but that's cool though. I'll run it.

I built autonomo on github, it's this mcp you plugin to your whatever ai editor and it drives the app/web/desktop whatever thing and validates it actually runs and works... keep building homie!

this looks neat and reminds me of "Ferrari" for fast and combines "react" so it's a great name. Was there a specific use case for this that inspired you? I would imagine some massive existing heavy thing that you plugged in to fix to save it? I just put my open source thing out so it's nice to see some traction on yours, rooting for you.

idk, i'm loving the newness of all of it, I feel more empowered than ever before, like it's my time. Before startups would take like a year to get going, now it's like a month or so. It's exciting and scary, we have no idea where it's going. Not boring at all. I was getting bored as shit and bam, now i can dream up shit quick and have it validated to, ya i figured that out with an MCP so ya this is my jam. Program MCPs and speed it up!!!!!!

ya, for real, my boss was like let's do e2e testing with AI, look for solutions out there... then like 2 days later he's like wtf is this bill, and i was like you wanted that right? Was using vision calls in azure foundry and was like over 100 bucks or something just in 2 days of me setting it up and trying it out with all the test cases it had.

Hey HN,

Tried posting this yesterday evening but timing was off and it got buried quickly (4 points, no comments). Reposting now during peak hours.

I built Autonomo MCP because AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude, etc.) are great at generating code but terrible at actually running and validating it in real apps. They hallucinate, rely on slow screenshots, or break on multi-device flows.

Autonomo MCP gives agents a fast (~50ms), structured JSON view of app state (semantic UI IDs, network calls, errors, logs) across web + iOS + Android + desktop simultaneously. Local-first, MCP-integrated, no cloud leaks.

- Swap vision bloat for tiny tokens - Cross-device validation (e.g. tap mobile → see web update) - Early stage, just launched: https://github.com/sebringj/autonomo

Would love feedback: Does this solve a pain point for anyone building agentic dev tools? What platforms/workflows would you want next? (Android/Kotlin and C#/.NET are on the TODO list.)

Thanks for any stars, comments, or tries!

– Jason

Congrats Tom. I wonder if a particular model could be used as a baseline for these values or if they are already doing that to check first level prior to a human in the loop? I myself have been using AI for this purpose and have found it getting pretty good. I know its not a replacement for thoughtful moderation however, a tailored model for HN would also promote the tradition of HN in terms of having it not just be about who is there and have it more trained on its best practices to promote consistency, possibly as an aid.

What struck me was the interruptions to the AI speaking which seemed commonplace by the team members in the demo. We will quickly get used to doing this to AIs and we will probably be talking to AIs a lot throughout the day as time progresses I would imagine. We will be trained by AIs to be rude and impatient I think.

Currently, what I get out from it is a good quick overview with some hallucinations. You have to actually know what you're doing to check the code. However, this is a fast moving target and will in no time be doing that part as well. I think stepping back and thinking maybe this thing is just giving us more and more agency and what can we do with that? We need to adapt to not constrain ourselves to just being programmers. We are humans with agency and if we can adapt to this, we can be more and more powerful having our technical insight that we've gained over the years to do some really cool things. I have a startup and with ChatGPT I've managed to do all parts of the stack with confidence and used it for all sorts of business related things outside of coding that have really helped move the business forward quickly.

IMO Web Components generally suck in developer experience but are good for bridging different js projects or web frameworks as the web components are very compatible between js frameworks. You can literally make a thin wrapper to expose your js flavored framework-based component such as react for example and expose it as a web component to another system such as angular 1 for example and it will work pretty well. You could potentially use this strategy to have parallel tracks of development where you can create an entirely new framework from scratch and start to share that functionality in the legacy project while you're in the process of upgrading which could take a long long time in some cases. At least you won't be continually working on the old one and adding more tech debt... although one could argue this wrapper approach is tech debt.

I'm currently using Deno deploy and found it to be fantastically performant and dumb simple for my lone wolf project. I'm experienced in AWS development in larger teams and it is nice to see a move away from complexity for a change where you can easily set something up without having to think about setting it up at all. The DNS stuff was just dead simple as well and automatic ssl certs was super nice. I have 0 complaints for what this is trying to be and am excited for the road map.

I think didn't do a good comment here because I don't mean that exactly. I don't necessarily care so much about it telling me how it got there. Rather I like it when I ask someone about something then I can ask them... "Tell me more about this or that or explain that in more detail" which I can never do in google.

You can also continue to chat with it in each of its answers and ask it why it said this or that and see how it works out corrections and clarifications which to me is so much more significant as that's how people converse. One-shot answers are for google.

ya that's another way i would say it as well

I can think of it like the wheels are still there, the frame, engine, body etc but the design and materials have been completely refined and overhauled to be modern future tech today. The car even has new stuff like electronics and wifi. Meaning there are still base conceptual things there but they are not the same...knowing that reasoning by analogy is flawed but still satisfying to me to feel like I understand it enough.

Personally this is my experience. I've had a couple of very distressful/low times in my life and I've always instinctually exercised rigorously in terms of weights, running, swimming, etc during those times to take my mind off of things outside of my control and have found it very therapeutic. The adrenaline and pain felt from pushing yourself through a hard workout takes your mind off of things and also makes you feel more alive and energetic. It is very difficult to feel down when you are experiencing these feeling from working out IMO. From my perspective, I like to describe it as I could not escape my own mind of a stream of negative and impending doom of thoughts but when working out and giving it your all, it allows you to feel and focus on the environment around you and get outside your head or negative thoughts, giving you a break mentally from that constant stream of bad mojo.

I would have to guess working out like that puts you in flight or fight mode. Which I think is part of our evolution when in fight or flight mode to have a heightened sense of awareness of the environment around you which due to our limited locus of attention, shifts attention or focus from inward negativity to the "immediacy of being". This also seems to coincide with my normally perceived fast tempo of music that seems to slow down when in a hard workout.

Agreed...up until the point these things become sentient then we'll have a time unravelling that mess.

I imagine an analogy of summer camp as that is my only way to relate as I'm in a rich country. I'm going to go to a summer camp not of my choosing and participating in activities not of my choosing and being bunked with people not of my choosing for the rest of my vacations for life and then when i'm about 80 years old then claim there is negligible delta from not having to do that. That last bit, I can't imagine.

It's going to get more interesting or disgusting depending on your compass (no judgement either way here) when robots are connected to this as that reminds me of times Elon was snickering when talking about Optimus and "other uses".

I might be skipping the competence part but personally my performance has been directly correlated to how much I care about my team/org. My attention is focused and goal oriented in a proactive way when I do care but passive and reactive when I just want a paycheck. I don't have good advice to spot how people care so its not super helpful but people that don't attempt to help in hairy situations or seem withdrawn from conversations are probably not on the good end of things.

So far I've found it very nice to work with as shorthand. The only issue I have so far is override scenarios for merging 2 class attributes as it isn't straightforward how this works unless you have a map ahead of time to remove class names that you want overridden.

That seems so efficient to do it all at once like that. The brain seems to be this massively parallel/buffered biological machine with an assembly pipeline to the consciousness center(s)? Like a mix of specific architecture layout (software 1.0) with a bunch of pattern matchers (software 2.0) maybe but I'm complete layman here obviously.