{"slug": "ask-hn-is-anyone-building-real-software-with-ai-agents", "title": "Ask HN: Is anyone building real software with AI agents?", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||\n2 points by |\nI'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? | |||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-anyone-building-real-software-with-ai-agents", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528665", "published_at": "2026-06-14 15:56:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-14 16:12:54.364826+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-anyone-building-real-software-with-ai-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-anyone-building-real-software-with-ai-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-anyone-building-real-software-with-ai-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-is-anyone-building-real-software-with-ai-agents.jsonld"}}