{"slug": "show-hn-why-can-t-your-agent-have-sweet-dreams", "title": "Show HN: Why can't your agent have sweet dreams?", "summary": "Developer Simar-malhotra09 released pi-sheep v1.0.0, a pi extension installable via `pi install git:github.com/Simar-malhotra09/pi-sheep@v1.0.0` that renders a sheep animation when an agent runs a sleep command such as `sleep 10`. The author credits the implementation solely to deepseek 4.1 pro and asks for pull requests to improve the sheep rendering.", "body_md": "\n\n```\npi install git:github.com/Simar-malhotra09/pi-sheep@v1.0.0\n```\n\nThen run `/reload` in pi and ask the agent to run `sleep 10`.\n\nP.S: 'sheep' is a bit of a stretch — if you know of a better way to render it please open a PR :p\n\nDisclaimer: Impl was solely by deepseek 4.1 pro; the idea came to me in a dream.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-why-can-t-your-agent-have-sweet-dreams", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/Simar-malhotra09/pi-sheep", "published_at": "2026-09-29 18:24:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-29 18:47:59.683316+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["pi", "pi-sheep", "Simar-malhotra09", "deepseek 4.1 pro"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-why-can-t-your-agent-have-sweet-dreams", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-why-can-t-your-agent-have-sweet-dreams.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-why-can-t-your-agent-have-sweet-dreams.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-why-can-t-your-agent-have-sweet-dreams.jsonld"}}