[HN Gopher] Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environm...
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       Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments
        
       Author : ascorbic
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2025-07-19 16:07 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | ritzaco wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
           | In other words, a supply chain attack? Let's call it what it
           | is.
        
             | hoistbypetard wrote:
             | 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 wrote:
         | This seems like a really _good_ idea for projects that reject
         | AI-written code, to detect and early-fail in such environments.
        
       | petesergeant wrote:
       | Neat! I might monkey patch vitest to show full diffs for expect
       | when being used by an agent
        
       | mrKola wrote:
       | Wasted opportunity to call it: vibrator
        
         | SequoiaHope wrote:
         | Leaves the name available for a buttplug.io agentic interface
         | plugin.
        
       | ofirg wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | why would this one need to be changed?
        
         | ascorbic wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
           | 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 wrote:
             | Dead babe has a good point there.
        
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