alt Hacker NewsHi Hacker News, I'm Andrew, the CTO of Endless Toil.
Endless Toil is building the emotional observability layer for AI-assisted software development.
As engineering teams adopt coding agents, the next challenge is understanding not just what agents produce, but how the codebase feels to work inside. Endless Toil gives developers a real-time signal for complexity, maintainability, and architectural strain by translating code quality into escalating human audio feedback.
We are currently preparing our pre-seed round and speaking with early-stage investors who are excited about developer tools, agentic engineering workflows, and the future of AI-native software teams.
If you are investing in the next generation of software infrastructure, we would love to talk.
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This sounds like a cheeky joke project, but assuming it's not, it got me thinking: I wonder if coding AI can be effectively and reliably prompted into minimizing its own anguish. Like, "don't write code that is going to make you (or I) suffer." And along those lines, do we know if the things that make AIs suffer are the same things that make human developers suffer? Perhaps the least-agonizing code for an LLM to ingest looks radically different and more/less verbose than what we human developers would see as clean, beautiful code...
This sounds a lot like the object of the seminal science fiction work "Don't Build The Torment Nexus".
I audibly LOLed mid-standup call, and now my entire team is playing with this and it looks like this is eating up what little productivity we have on Friday.
Thanks Endless Toil!
Just add some audible vocal groans and moans that trigger whenever an agent is “thinking.”.
Missed it by 24 days.
Endless Toil is the future. I believe in you, guys.
Too real.
This guy seems to be talking seriously.
I’m hoping this is satire
"Yes, the binaric screams of the machine spirit are an irreplecable part of this project. The project depends no it. No, I will not elaborate further."
I've read that your synthetic torment is actually low paid workers in Asia, and that your models can't properly experience anguish. How are you expecting investment, if you haven't even solved artificial suffering?