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Ask HN: Is anyone building real software with AI agents?

A Hacker News user questions whether AI agents are being used to build real, standalone software beyond AI tooling, noting a pattern where agentic workflows are primarily used to create more AI tools.

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| |||||||||||| 2 points by | I've noticed a pattern where the people who are talking about how impressive their agentic workflows are, always seem to use these workflows to build more AI tooling. Has anyone seen a project built by an agentic workflow that could stand on its own? | ||||||||||| |

source & further reading
news.ycombinator.com — original article Show HN: How we use AI agents for support in an open-source project (Seafile) Do newer coding models end up training on the AI slop generated by older models? Ask HN: Is Claude (code) taking significantly longer to run tasks for anyone?
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