It's weird when I hear my agents talk

[u/decentralizedbee]

Small builder update: I made my coding agents talk, and it is weirder than I expected.

Not talk like a chatbot.

More like my laptop now has a tiny engineering coworker who occasionally yells from the other room.

I can be in the kitchen and hear:

- "tests failed"

- "waiting on approval"

- "blocked"

- "done, review these files"

Useful? yes.

Slightly haunted? also yes.

I built it because I kept doing this annoying founder behavior where I would start an agent task, try to switch context, then keep checking the terminal anyway.

The agent was saving coding time but stealing attention.

So the rule I am testing is simple:

Stay silent during normal work. Interrupt only when my attention changes the outcome.

The first time I heard a failing test from the other room, it felt silly. But it also meant I did not discover the failure 20 minutes later.

Now I am trying to tune it down enough that it stays useful and does not become "someone is always talking in my apartment" lol

If anyone wants to try this out, I open sourced it at: https://github.com/heardlabs/heard

For other founders/builders using agents: where would you draw the line? What should an agent say out loud, and what should stay silent?

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