sharing a pretty important primitive in my agentic engineering setup I call it "gnhf" - good night, have fun basically, every night before I go to bed, I would put my agents to work so I never wake up "empty-handed". it's done through a similar setup as geoff's famous... ralph loop and Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch i just open sourced my solution as a tool at - it's a dead-simple orchestrator that can run claude code, codex, opencode and rovo dev it's particularly effective when you give a measurable goal for the agents to work towards. the agent will deterministically attempt at it, make incremental progress, keep successful results and discard failed ones - rinse and repeat until you wake up (or it reaches the caps you set) i previously ran this with a bunch of scripts but finally got time to package it as a tool - pretty fresh so will likely have rough edges, but feel free to give it a try! good night, have fun!show more

@GeoffreyHuntley Cool concept and clean architecture, well done mate. I wonder if you can hook this up with an outer Ralph loop to go through beads tasks, each iterated by gnhf

@shawnmvn @GeoffreyHuntley I haven’t tried this yet but I bet it can work by simply running: gnhf “finish my backlog in beads one by one”

@GeoffreyHuntley True, with the assumption of good quality gates in beads. I currently use /loop for this, might try your tool and see how it goes!

@GeoffreyHuntley haha I do this all the time and call it night shift

@GeoffreyHuntley Why stop the agents at all? They can run continuously inside a git worktree IMO, in fully autonomous, systems strong harness engineering helps, however humans are still a bottleneck

@GeoffreyHuntley we'd want them stopped when - 1. objective has been reached 2. further work has diminishing returns 3. token budget is limited and we don't want to over spend

@GeoffreyHuntley gnhf is crazy, i still wake up empty-handed even with alarms fr lol

@GeoffreyHuntley This is fucking awesome. We just released a space for agents to live in. Forkable, persistent Vms ( Think this would work in there perfectly? Thoughts?

@GeoffreyHuntley I used it for a few hours it's pretty nice. I'll call it the iPhone of ralph loops. No configuration.

@GeoffreyHuntley Fun!!

@GeoffreyHuntley Excited to try this! Also I feel like you can see where you started "gnhf"-ing in your GitHub commits, gets reallll consistent right about 2.5 weeks ago

@GeoffreyHuntley Thank you! I was just looking for something like that and wanted to create “night shift” tool. name from @jamonholmgren article -

@GeoffreyHuntley Amazing, for my agents I call it a “night sprint”

@GeoffreyHuntley Trying tonight, we’ll see results tomorrow 😄

@GeoffreyHuntley How can an agent make a deterministic approach to the solution? Could you explain your harness?

@GeoffreyHuntley each iteration is done by agent but the loop is done deterministically by code

@GeoffreyHuntley lgtm

@GeoffreyHuntley This is brilliant. I’m using a similar nightly loop for BrutalOS — forcing daily personal missions with proof. The accountability engine is what makes agentic systems actually stick for normal humans, not just builders.

@GeoffreyHuntley love this concept. I do something similar but less structured. curious how you handle the quality check in the morning. do you review everything the agents produced or just look at the measurable goal progress?

@GeoffreyHuntley I review the notes.md file that got generated to quickly understand what was done, and I sometimes cherrypick certain commits that I want and drop others.

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@GeoffreyHuntley any cool things it’s made for you?

@GeoffreyHuntley I use this mostly to optimize something that already exists instead of making new things. Optimizations are usually quantifiable and I can trust automated outcome much more easily. My recent work in was mostly optimized by this for example

@GeoffreyHuntley awesome will check this out and agree re optimization vs net new

@GeoffreyHuntley Он бесплатный? Агенты могут общаться с друг с другом?

@GeoffreyHuntley yes and yes

@GeoffreyHuntley this is cool! I'll try it tonight for a couple projects I'm working on