... Ngl, I'm kinda tired of AI case studies that read like fairy tales. Pilot, rollout, ROI, done. The numbers tell a different story. MIT's NANDA report (2025) found about 95% of gen AI pilots showed no measurable P&L impact. Gartner expects 40%+ of agentic AI projects to get scrapped by the end of 2027. So where do all the messy middles go? The one that still stings for me: an agent that worked great in English ...

... build workflows around outcomes rather than tools. But the identity should never create confusion about who's actually doing the work. Transparency is non-negotiable. Comment from Ian Powell(@ian_powell2): Worked with named agents on our team and ngl it made handoffs so much smoother. "Wren's drafts are waiting" >>> "the email thing has 3 items." Just never let it pretend to be human to a customer. Names for the team, not a disguise ...

... mostly it means 4 calendars and constantly getting booked over my private stuff so we ended up building our own fix for it, Kalender Sync. it went live here on PH today, which is a bit nerve wracking ngl outside of building: lots of coffee, tennis, and trying to keep my own calendar in check quick question for you all: how many calendars are you juggling right now? I have a feeling 3+ is way more normal than people admit ...

... people yet? Comment from Andrea Radoji i (@aihana): @ore_oluwa3 Right - spontaneously! So the question becomes: how do I stay top of mind for the next time a friend says, We should do that sometime ? Comment from Inis Leahy(@inisleahy008): Ngl my first thought reading this was "this sounds like a feature, not an app." Which isn't an insult! Features can become apps if the behavior is strong enough. But maybe test it as a feature inside something people already ...

... Keep getting an idea, then immediately going "AI could just do this already" and killing it before i even try. Happens every single time now. Part of it's real, ngl, a lot of stuff genuinely is one prompt away from existing. But part of it's watching randoms post a localhost demo, hype it like they built the next big thing in 2 minutes, and get treated like legends while actually knowing how to ship something real means less ...

... modes a network uses. Netfox is free, a universal binary (Apple Silicon + Intel), runs on macOS 15.6+, and is signed and notarized. Website: netfox.app Download: https://netfox.app/download Comment from Giovambattista Fazioli(@gfazioli): @galdayan  stumbled into it ngl, I wasn't hunting for circular fixtures. once the probe showed CoreWLAN saying yes to the OWE transition flag on a plain open network, I grepped for everything in the code that read those flags, and the test file came ...

... security tool trustworthy. Makes total sense that the write is unconditional otherwise you'd have to build a whole separate 'is this repo clean' system just to decide when to record. The trade-off you described (false positives vs silent baseline) feels like the right one. Already using it on a few internal repos, and the speed is genuinely impressive. Thanks for the detailed breakdown this thread alone has been more educational than most tool docs I've read this ... ... really appreciate you running that round-trip test before shipping it that level of care shows in the final product. Already installed it, and I'm impressed with how fast it runs. " Comment from Giovambattista Fazioli(@gfazioli): @sumonmatrix  ngl

... there for hours and gets seen parented at least once. it covers the agent-finishing-a-test case worst --- that whole life can fit inside one minute, and then the first sighting is already an orphan with nothing recorded.... ngl that's backwards: the case the feature was built for is the one hardest to record ...

... long you plan to travel! Comment from AJ(@build_with_aj): @busmark_w_nika  As long as you don't wonder if it's gunshots or fireworks it's all good lmao. Built in alarm clock is great ngl Comment from AJ(@build_with_aj): Situational awareness, Walk with purpose, backpack up front. When you get to a new city learn what places are dangerous. Ngl

... release is chasing, and I suspect everyone has a story. What would you want octoscope to be honest about next? Site: https://gfazioli.github.io/octos... Newsletter: https://octoscope.substack.com Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@undolog Comment from Giovambattista Fazioli(@gfazioli): @rabnoor_s  ngl, you found the seam: I built it around the page possibly not knowing something, never around the page being wrong. Same shape one layer down, and you're right Filed it https://github.com/gfazioli/octo... with what's already there ...

... slow, what do you actually check first? I'd like to know whether this verdict answers it or misses it Comment from Giovambattista Fazioli(@gfazioli): @muniswamy_muniswamy  Thanks that was the bit I was least sure about shipping. ngl the losing side is real: on a band it has barely seen you get nothing at all, which can read as broken rather than as declining to guess... Comment from Saman Baloch(@saman_baloch): @muniswamy_muniswamy  The local services ...

... inconsistency I hadn't noticed, since the sibling disclosure for a callee-only file isn't gated at all, so two markers that both say "couldn't see past here" were following different rules for no reason ngl the workflow_call read is the one I'm keeping. That sibling disclosure is the same principle in the opposite direction: the file that can't be judged alone says so, rather than being scored on a self-description that ...

... cannot make it go red deliberately, it was never testing what you thought. Would that have caught this one, or would forcing a failure still have hit the same stale instance? Comment from Giovambattista Fazioli(@gfazioli): @rabnoor_s  ngl the general form is better than what I had. "Not just that it went red, but that it went red about the right thing" that's the step I was doing by hand without a name for it, same ...

... already. Would love your feedback on AI Hive too if you're open to it: https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): @ric_v36  sorry first for my late response mate This hits close to home ngl. Worked with a small team last year that almost gave an AI agent direct write access to a production DB because "it seemed fine in testing." Still get a lil anxious thinking about that one. The fact you built safety ... ... feel the value before asking for anything is still the best distribution move for tools like this. Wishing Norl the same. Let's keep in touch as both products grow. Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): @michael_shollenberger  Ngl

... main factor in terms of a project's success. When the initial motivation fades. Things are not that shiny and new anymore. And work becomes more like routine. This is something a builder brain doesn't like that much. NGL, when telling that I failed exactly in this phase numerous times. Today, I try to create a clear structure when to do what and add resources to support the process. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9667996): Comment Deleted ...

... Product Hunt! We're working on a proactive AI assistant that doesn t just respond, but actually manages your life for you! Trying to understand where people actually want help vs where they still want control. Curious what that looks like. If an AI assistant could take over one part of your day, what would you choose? Comment from Swati Paliwal(@swati_paliwal): For me, inbox triage like sorting, drafting replies to routine stuff, and flagging only what needs ... ... kakirala  So true. I guess this is what we're building at GAIA! We face the problem of managing our inbox too, and a personal assistant that can manage your entire digital life feels like a game changer ngl

... voice, cancel your forgotten subscriptions with one click, alerts you before you overspend , build for developers and creators. Honest feedback would be appreciated !! Comment from ABDUL SAMI(@_abdulsami): @rianbrob Hi rian appreciate your feedback. i tried the sponge and ngl its great and i appreciate what you're doing. I have only created a waitlist will build the mvp soon . I am learning and interacting with new people can i drop you a msg incase of any guidance ? Comment from ...

... view. It's helpful and includes real-world evidence for my reference. Comment from Swati Paliwal(@swati_paliwal): This is quite underrated and I must admit I've done this too (almost went through a "Dear GPT-phase," ngl. This is specially powerful when you're a complete decision making machine and need more than one head and some stats that can prove to you whatever's in your head can be done if done well, otherwise not. Because ...

... exchanges ~24,000 fraudulent accounts Proxy networks to bypass regional restrictions Targeted extraction of reasoning, coding and tool-use abilities Distillation is a common technique for training smaller models from larger ones. The controversy here is using a competitor s model outputs at scale without permission. What Anthropic Claims DeepSeek (~150k exchanges): Extracted step-by-step reasoning and censorship-safe reformulations. Moonshot (~3.4M exchanges): Targeted agentic reasoning, coding, tool use, and vision. MiniMax (~13M exchanges): Focused on agentic coding ... ... entire internet = progress. Train on one model = espionage. What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments. Comment from Himani Sah(@himani_sah1): @Migma AI 's tweet had me laughing xD Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): NGL

... document interface is because of the illusion of talking to someone. It makes things faster. Writing feels like a lonely endeavor. Comment from AJ(@build_with_aj): @busmark_w_nika  Oh I know them! Great product ngl, My brain is just not wired for that level of features. I write either in neovim or in proton docs with a dark mode extension lol I might give it a proper shot but idk if it is for me. Comment from ...

... help AI agents buy their own tech tools so this may be a new era when funds will go rather to Agents than to founders. Comment from Henrik Pedersen(@henrikpedersen): The distinction I keep coming back to is read vs. write access, and reversible vs

... constant gating at every turn, so I set out to create a tool more powerful, more feature rich that didn't require a massive budget to get access to. The AI chameleon avatar ended up being the surprise vs the "tool". People have been having fun designing their chameleons and using them as an affiliate tool. Each chameleon that gets created by a user gets it's own searchable page in the chameleon gallery . Anybody who signs up through that ... ... pull the wool over our eyes. I have friends working at companies that gamify how long they can work for and it is dystopian. Comment from Chris Payne(@chris_payne_emba): @jake_friedberg   Spot on, Jake. The 'feature vs

... Analytics to PostHog and added product analytics sent from our desktop app, MultiDrive. I've enjoyed PostHog for more than half a year and how they've improved their system. Hey, but it's me. What's your favorite alternative? Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): isn't it!? Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): @orka1000  re: Cursor. any experiences with @Zed ? and Linear: ofc! fast and beautiful, a source of inspiration for many Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): @mokosiy  oh spot ... ... PostHog is definitely opinionated. Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): and curious what are the products that inspired you the most while building @ThingsDB ? Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): @mokosiy  ngl

... Folks, please. This isn t LinkedIn (YET). Write your own maker comments. Sheesh. https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/... Comment from Nosheen Kanwal(@nosheen_kanwal): Ouch, AI never felt that obvious before ngl... Comment from Gabe Perez(@gabe): UGH NO - looks like we can do better on educating makers as well on crafting thoughtful responses....and supporting GIFs on mobile ;) Comment from Rohan Chaubey(@rohanrecommends): A short human reply is much valuable than a long AI response. AI can be used ...

... platform-agnostic, and the best planning layer between a software developer and consistent, high-quality results from AI Coding tools. We are currently significantly better than SpecKit and also have advantages/differences over Kiro (Kiro is awesome though, ngl, but we aren't really trying to be them, they just are in a similar space). We have a group of ~20 (10 daily active) users and 2 companies (software shops each with 50+ devs, only a few from each company using ...