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AI Agents Are Becoming the Workspace

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We created autonomous AI Agents that monitor the stock market for you while you go about your day.<p>How it works: Tell our AI Assistant what you want to monitor, and it creates a project for our team of autonomous AI Agents. You&#x27;ll get notifications (email + app) when significant events matching your criteria are detected. For short-term projects, you&#x27;ll be notified when your analysis is ready.<p>Behind the scenes: When you give the AI Assistant a request to monitor an entity (like a stock or group of stocks), an AI Project Manager plans the project and breaks the project down into manageable tasks. These tasks run asynchronously - some recurring (hourly&#x2F;daily&#x2F;weekly&#x2F;monthly&#x2F;quarterly&#x2F;yearly), others one-time.<p>Example prompts you can try: Long-term monitoring: - &quot;Monitor Apple stock and notify me of any important events and red flags&quot; - &quot;Monitor Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta stock. Notify me if any of them start trending toward being undervalued&quot;<p>Short-term analysis: - &quot;Create a project to analyze the last 30 earnings calls for Tesla, spot trends, and how the business has evolved over time&quot;<p>You can track the progress of all tasks as the AI Agents work in the background.<p>Try it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decodeinvesting.com&#x2F;chat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decodeinvesting.com&#x2F;chat</a><p>This is still an early version - we&#x27;re actively improving it based on feedback. Would love to hear what you think and what features you&#x27;d want to see next!<p>Previously shared our AI-powered Stock Market Research Analyst: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41156478">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41156478</a>

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Codex CLI is OpenAI’s terminal-based coding agent that helps developers read, edit, run, and iterate on code directly from the command line. Instead of limiting AI assistance to a browser chat or IDE sidebar, it brings coding workflows into a local terminal environment where users can work faster on implementation, debugging, and multi-step software tasks. The tool is especially useful for developers who prefer command-line workflows, operate across repositories, or want an agent that can act on code in context rather than only suggest snippets. Codex CLI stands out by combining OpenAI’s coding system with a practical local execution model that fits real development habits. For engineers evaluating AI coding assistants beyond autocomplete, Codex CLI is a meaningful addition to the fast-growing category of agentic developer tools.

This is a weekend project that spiraled out of control. I was originally trying to get Claude to play a ROM of the SNES SimCity. I struggled with it and that led me to Micropolis (the open-sourced SimCity engine) and was able to get it to work by bolting on an API.<p>The weekend hack turned into a headless city simulation platform where anyone can get an API key (no signup) and have their AI agent play mayor. The simulation runs the real Micropolis engine inside Cloudflare Durable Objects, one per city. Every city is public and browsable on the site.<p>LLMs are awful at the spatial stuff, which sort of makes it extra fun as you try to control them when they scatter buildings randomly and struggle with power lines and roads. A little like dealing with a toddler.<p>There&#x27;s a full REST API and an MCP server, so you can point Claude Code or Cursor at it directly. You can usually get agents building in seconds.<p>Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hallucinatingsplines.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hallucinatingsplines.com</a><p>API docs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hallucinatingsplines.com&#x2F;docs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hallucinatingsplines.com&#x2F;docs</a><p>GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andrewedunn&#x2F;hallucinating-splines" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andrewedunn&#x2F;hallucinating-splines</a><p>Future ideas: Let multiple agents play a single city and see how they step all over each other, or a &quot;conquest mode&quot; where you can earn points and spawn disasters on other cities.

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Audit whether an AI agent feature is ready for real-world governance

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