... Open the terminal where your agent is running. Do it now, before you read the rest. Is something sitting there waiting for you? How long has it been there? I did this an hour ago. Mine had been waiting 15 minutes. I was at my desk the whole time, two windows away. That is the part I had wrong for a year. I thought this was a "stepped away from the computer" problem. It is not. Most of the waiting ... ... this I am less sure about. @siarheihamanovich said in the last thread that the prompts he missed were almost never real decisions. A grep, a type check, a test command the agent had already run forty times that week. Mine

... trusted a number for about three weeks and it turned out to be two different numbers wearing one label. Bing Webmaster Tools has a grounding query table. It lists queries and a citation count. Mine showed 75 citations and 30 percent share for the query AI multilingual support agents US ecommerce. I had been reporting that as one of my pages winning that query. Search Console has a separate AI features report, which gives citation counts per URL. Different provider ... ... have not decided yet. So the addition to writing the rule against the outcome: write down the premise that makes the action sensible, and check the premise on the date as well as the number. Mine

... nobody covered, which is worse, because it changes a line of code a lot of us shipped this year without thinking about it. If your product has a "paste a URL" box, a link unfurler, an enrichment step, a competitor-monitoring job, or anything that fetches a page and hands it to a model, this is about you. What was actually measured. The paper is "Indirect Prompt Injection in the Wild" by Khodayari, Zhang, Acharya and Pellegrino, out of CISPA ... ... plain text with something like BeautifulSoup, you delete that evidence and flatten a concealed instruction into ordinary prose. You are not cleaning the input. You are laundering it. Almost every ingestion pipeline I have seen, including one of mine

... kept an Excel of what the three closest competitors shipped out. It gave me no insights whatsoever. The feature name in the list doesn't say anything about its quality. In July I tried the closest competitor

... Mine ranked nowhere on launch day. Barely any upvotes, quiet comments, felt like a non-event. A month later: 1600+ users, 500+ signups, 250+ people who came back without being asked to. Zero ad spend, none of it came from PH. My honest take, this platform is mostly tech people, developers, builders, saas folks. If your product's for that audience, a strong launch here can genuinely be everything. If it's not, like mine

... about what those pages are allowed to load: no third party hosts, no analytics before consent, a content security policy, whatever yours is. Now look at what that rule actually iterates. Not what it says. What it loops over. Mine is a test that forbids any public page from blocking its own render on a host I do not own. It reads its page list out of the application rather than from a hand picked array, which was already ... ... page does a stranger reach on your site that your own definition of public does not include, and does your rule iterate a list somebody wrote, or the route table itself? I have not found a way to make mine

... party in the conversation with nothing to sell you, and that it's the version I'd have to defend if I were wrong. The second document is whichever GEO study is in your inbox this month. Mine was Previsible's 2026 State of AI Discovery - 6.77 million AI-driven sessions across 166 sites, November 2024 to May 2026, and genuinely the longest-running dataset of its kind. Its findings are plausible: Google's own AI surfaces drive more ... ... Three numbers from it get quoted. Users who saw an AI summary clicked a traditional result in 8% of visits; users who didn't, 15%. Users ended their browsing session 26% of the time with an AI summary present versus

... Apple's own support pages. Apple In-App Purchase: 26%, or 15% if you're in the Small Business Program, the Mini Apps or Video Partner Programs, or on an auto-renewable subscription after the subscriber's first year. Alternative payment processing inside your app: 20%, or 10% for those same groups. Out-of-app offers with an actionable link: a 15% store services commission, or 10% for those groups, on anything bought within 7 days of the tap. Apps ... ... distributed outside the App Store entirely - an alternative

... over twenty-five years of it on TV productions and it's what I am first, not a side note to something else. Photography came later, on my own time, and it's stayed exactly that: mine, separate, the thing I do because I want to, not because someone's paying me to. Rome to the set I studied at the Institute of Cinematography and Television R. Rossellini in Rome, and started working as an assistant cameraman ... ... post it. A finished shot, going nowhere, because the words never came as fast as the image did. The gap wasn't talent and it wasn't effort. It was that writing and shooting are different muscles, and mine

... built a benchmark that runs nine WordPress backup plugins head to head on identical sites. One of the nine is mine, and it currently sits second. That is an obviously compromised position, so I have spent more time on what makes a vendor-run benchmark believable than on the measuring. Three things I landed on, and I am not sure any of them are enough. Publish the runs you threw away. 581 completed runs, 180 scored, 401 excluded, and every ... ... reason attached. Most are boring reruns rather than embarrassing failures, and saying so is part of the point: 360 superseded, 41 excluded for cause. The honest number includes the boring ones. Say when a lead is not a lead. Mine

... newest one or two means people.Cross it against a surface only humans reach. My repo had 81 unique visitors while the registry was reporting 2,411 downloads. Thirty to one.Look for a spike with no correlated movement anywhere else. Mine had 1,542 downloads in a single day and the visitor graph for that day is flat. Nothing happened. A mirror woke up. Then work out what you cannot see at all, which was the uncomfortable one for me. Anyone ... ... unique cloners, 116, and CDN file requests, 95 a week. Both far smaller than 2,411 and both far more likely to be a person.I still show a number on the site, because everyone does and a visitor reads mine

... What s in the recent tab of your AI conversations? Doesn t matter if it s about work, coding, planning, writing, or something completely random... Just curious what everyone is actually talking to AI about =D Mine was about applying late to Y Combinator for Fall 2026 . To be honest, I posted the question in p/yc and got rejected there =D So I started figuring it out with GPT instead =D What s yours? Comment from Elsa(@elsaamri ... ... tracking everything. AI helped me spot a few patterns. Comment from Fatima Sarki(@fatima_sarki): I asked AI to plan my meals around my calorie target which was honestly more useful than expected. Comment from Thomas Jack(@thomas_jack3): Mine

... Founders ! drop your startup below :) I'm gonna check every single one and give you feedback. Here is mine : Murmell , it's basically google docs for AI coding agents, you can collaborate with your friend in the same board and use multi providers coding agents in the same rooms, and all that, in the cloud. So you can close your laptop and your agents will be still running :) link : Murmell Comment from Moss Ab Mirande-Ney(@moss_ab_mirande ...

... watermark in text. So does provenance matter for code, or only for content? Where I've got to so far, and I'd change my mind easily on this: For what I ship to users, the output is mine regardless of what typed it, so a label would be noise. For anything someone else has to maintain, I'd want to be told, because generated code tends to fail in a different place: the structure is plausible and the edge ... ... cases are wrong. For client work, it's their question to ask rather than mine

... leadership." Copy, paste, post. Zero lived experience, zero original thought. It's just AI slop in a blazer. AI-written emails to people who matter. Your client can tell. Not because the grammar's off because the warmth is. VS GOOD AI JUDGEMENT Using AI to actually look at what a candidate did. Not keyword-matching a CV pulling apart their portfolio, cross-referencing their claims. You still decide. You just decide better. Using AI to draft, then making ... ... letting it run autonomously somewhere you have no cheap way to check the result afterward. Good judgement is running it unattended specifically where verification is cheap and fast, even if you can't watch it happen live. I let mine

... threads are now outscoring every comment I have ever left combined. Still missing the one line almost everyone ranked above me on the leaderboard carries. Verified Account, plus 20, one time, no writing involved. Checked a dozen profiles above mine and all of them have it. I do not, and claiming it would be the single biggest jump available to me right now, bigger than my next several threads combined. If you have claimed it, what did the actual flow ... ... look like? Trying to work out if it is friction in the process or people just not knowing the line exists. Comment from Jernej Jan Ko ica(@jernej_jan_kocica): Mine

... same answer independently oldest stays. I wrote the test, then broke the rule on purpose to check the test would notice. It reported zero survivors. The tally: forty lines of guard, nine corrections to get right, four of them mine and introduced while fixing the previous one. Free, universal, macOS 15.6+: https://netfox.app What's the most misleading bug report you've ever written for yourself? I'll go first mine

... thing I ve been thinking about while building is that our real competitor often isn t another startup. It s the spreadsheet someone already has, the manual process that s good enough, the employee who s always handled it, a messy collection of tools, or increasingly, just opening ChatGPT and asking it to figure something out. So I thought it could be fun to turn that into a little product arena. Put your product in the arena: [Your product] [what ... ... free. Maybe people don t realize they have the problem. Or maybe your opponent is genuinely the better option for some users. I think those answers are a lot more interesting than comparing feature lists between startups. Mine

... people in one Reddit thread called a comment of mine AI generated, in the same register I have used across every platform for weeks without issue. Went back and audited the account instead of arguing about it. The pattern that got flagged was not length or structure. It was confident mechanism reasoning with no first-hand marker in it, nothing that said I actually did this. Comment karma on that account went from 1 to 26 over two weeks once ... ... every comment started carrying a real number or a real mistake instead of just an argument. Curious whether anyone else here has found a similar tell for what reads as generated versus

... finally read the whole study instead of the headline, and the actually useful findings are different from what got shared. First, in their realistic-config lane (instruction file + several MCP servers), the "light" harness came out HEAVIER: ~90.8k vs ~75k. A 72KB instruction file alone added ~20k tokens to every request, on both harnesses. Their own conclusion: configuration, not the harness, accounts for most of the production bill. The harness sets the floor, you set the ceiling. Second ... ... close to a fixed cost. An unstable small one can out-spend it. Size isn't the sin, churn is. Third, session shape flips the winner anyway. On a multi-step task the heavy harness finished cheaper (121k vs

... most popular so far. That s the basic approach I would personally follow. Do you have your own hacks or strategies for using Product Hunt discussions? :) Comment from Jernej Jan Ko ica(@jernej_jan_kocica): @abdullah_javaid3  Pulled mine after reading yours. All time, and it is more lopsided than I expected. 41 KP. Verified account +20, comments +15, forum threads +7. The verified line is a one-time badge that took about ten minutes of filling in a form ... ... half of what every comment I have ever written paid between them. @alieksia I owe you a correction. I told you verification is not the switch you are looking for. For getting read I still think that is true, mine

... Measured mean recall was about twenty per cent. So I stopped reviewing my own search terms and built the check to write its test set in steps that cannot see the term list. Comment from Tony TAN(@tony_tan10086): Mine wasn't code, it was a data question. I asked an agent for "active users last month," it wrote clean SQL, returned a confident number, and it was wrong it had silently picked a table where "active" meant something different ... ... matters, a second model reading the first one's output catches a different class of miss than re-reading it yourself, because it fails in different places than the model that wrote it. Comment from Vladimir Iudin(@vladimir_iudin): Mine

... been the agent being wrong, they've been the gap between wrong and noticed. That gap is the part I underbuilt. On your unanswerable one, the person who never answers, I don't have a good answer either. Mine defaults to keep waiting, which is exactly the stall you describe. What I'd want is a deadline on the ask itself. No answer in N minutes means fall back to the safe option and say so loudly, rather than hold ... ... line forever. A stalled job that took the cautious path is recoverable. A stalled job that just sat there is a support ticket. Comment from Dale Mooney(@dalemooney): @alex_amancio_candoa_   @aadilghani  Constant versus

... read. "Is this code correct" was already answered by a QA agent that exercised the story like a user. The only question left is  "does this user story work"   which was always the one that's mine. The unglamorous specs that make it survive a real repo Three more specs, because a real repo moves and a demo doesn't: Nightly merge-down.  A week-long initiative means main shifts underneath it while other things ... ... blueprint I sharpened over one coffee, and five yeses none of which needed me at a keyboard, or even at home. The agent owns everything mechanical, including its own mistakes. I own the two things that were ever mine

... like to take a look. Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): I'd add one thing that mattered more than any of it for me: can you say in one sentence the exact moment someone reaches for this? I launched mine "ready" by basically your checklist, worked, landing page, the lot. It still underperformed, and the gap wasn't polish. People couldn't tell what moment it saved them, so they nodded and scrolled on. Worth setting expectations ... ... goal: if you want raw eyeballs go Tue-Thu, but for a badge/ranking with a modest following a weekend can punch above its weight. Comment from Sabber Ahamed(@sabber_ahamed): @busmark_w_nika   @abdullah_javaid3  the invitation vs