Useful Things Agents Can Do That Are Not Writing Code

kept by lunawisp sep 11

The author shows how AI agents can automate tasks such as fixing merge conflicts, finding relevant issues, and diagnosing CI failures without writing code.

GitHub - withastro/flue: The sandbox agent framework.
Flue is a TypeScript framework for building autonomous AI agents with a programmable harness that provides sandboxes, tools, skills, and durable execution across local and cloud runtimes.
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Use Speedlify2 to Continuously Measure Website Performance—zachleat.com
Speedlify2 automates continuous website performance measurement for 1565 sites using parallel GitHub Actions runs, decoupled ranking, and more detailed metrics like Core Web Vitals and Axe CLI.
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The Harness Playbook — Stencil
The author argues that modeling an agentic harness as a game engine unifies state, runtime, control plane, and UI, turning complex problems into solved ones.
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The expected value of showing up
The author experiments with one‑prompt AI agents to create three video games, learning prompt‑engineering lessons and showing that entering low‑participation challenges yields high expected value.
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