Empathy: A skill that helps AI agents talk to humans
empathy This is a skill that helps AI agents talk to humans. Every day, I read issues, PRs and comments written by agents. This is taking a toll on the mental health of maintainers across the whole ecosystem.
- ▪empathy This is a skill that helps AI agents talk to humans.
- ▪Every day, I read issues, PRs and comments written by agents.
- ▪This is taking a toll on the mental health of maintainers across the whole ecosystem.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 2,975 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/danielroe/empathy |
| Publication time | Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:18:20 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-30T22:27:29.962Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-30T22:27:29.962Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | efWr08I-ssrv · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
empathy This is a skill that helps AI agents talk to humans. Every day, I read issues, PRs and comments written by agents. And I'm not unique. This is taking a toll on the mental health of maintainers across the whole ecosystem. Personally, I think agents should not get between people. Human-to-human interaction is precious, and it's what makes open source a delight. My rules for using AI in open source specifically exclude LLM-written comments and PR descriptions, for that reason. But I realise not everyone agrees with me. So this skill exists as an experiment. I want to see if it's possible to tackle the way that agents tend to relate to open source maintainers.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.