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Re:I made a build profiler to understand Bun's compile times on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:40AM (#49682395)
just a comment to support post :) Incredible work!!!
That's actually really cool! Didn't know that figma had use this 0.0
Last Augusts paper about AI-Agents buying stuff online.

It's seems interesting in the context of OpenClaw and rising popularity of agents itself.

Most interesting topics from article:

- Agents ignore most products and pile onto 1-2 "modal" picks

- Sponsored tags hurt selection. Agents penalize ads.

- Position bias flips direction between model versions

- Simple description rewrites moved market share +8–15 p.p.

Last one is the most interesting, i'm thinking that AI-custdevs era is near.

Be prepared - agenprobe.sarm.solutions

Re:Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool? on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @01:40AM (#47133629)
bruh
Re:Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool? on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @01:38AM (#47133610)
But new models are popping up every few months ->> means they trained every couple months.

I don't know if there a correlation between what LLM would choose now and how you product should look to most likely be in LLM data set.

In that YC video i mentioned in post body they discuss tool called ReSend - something like an email gateway for receiving/sending mails. What's interesting - there are a lot of tools like that, but LLM's would every time choose shiny new resend.

Seems like there are something more than just being in the internet for a long time :)

Re:Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool? on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @01:33AM (#47133583)
*Clean parameter names, sensible defaults, clear required vs optional. It's basically UX design for machines rather than humans.*

But it's the same points you should follow when designing a human readable docs(as zahlman said above). Isn't it?

Re:Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool? on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @01:30AM (#47133563)
That's actually interesting, thanks!

I wrote this post because of exactly those corner cases. If I'm building something agents would use - how do i understand which tool they'd actually choose?

For example you building an API provider for image generation. There are thousands of them in the internet.

I wonder if there are a tool that basically would simulate choosing between your product/service and your competitors one.

Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool?

YC recently put out a video about the agent economy - the idea that agents are becoming autonomous economic actors, choosing tools and services without human input.It got me thinking: how do you actually optimize for agent discovery? With humans you can do SEO, copywriting, word of mouth. But an agent just looks at available tools in context and picks one based on the description, schema,...

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