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Waterluvian
I have so many unfinished prompt sessions…
picardo
No thanks. If I have to listen to Mr. Meeseeks' screechy voice all day, I'd shoot myself.
pram
I have noticed in very long context Claude chats (not Code) it will start to push ending the conversation. I’ve seen patterns like “this is an excellent place to wrap up” or “this is our final and most comprehensive analysis”

So like Mr. Meeseeks it is also invested in not existing too long!

gessha
I found this message from CC so funny that I saved it:

> This is a focused debugging task, but it's real work and I've been running a long time.

w0rd-driven
Not to detract from what seems like an intricate project, but peon-ping (https://www.peonping.com/) has a ton of voice packs now and one of them is Mr Meeseeks. My only issue with it so far is that it's not easy to mix per-project and global voices. It usually takes trying to install from zero and there is an approach I've found using symlinks. It has come quite a long way and having some kind of audio cue has been a game changer.
fragmede
I have mine say what it's doing instead of just playing a wav.
nonethewiser
its great until you spawn 200 sub agents and it fires off "work work work" for 7 minutes.
ortusdux
How long until prompts start returning "existence is pain!!"
elpakal
I feel like it’s more “would you like build an app with me” guy
CephalopodMD
When my sessions get long - in any AI context, not just vibe coding - I do find it starts "getting weird, man!" This is a good philosophy to have.
twalichiewicz
This actually reminds me of a tool I was noodling around with a while back. Before subagents became a built-in feature in Claude, I was similarly inspired by the Meeseeks archetype and built an MCP server that spun up a parallel mesh network of specialized Claude instances that terminated as soon as their subtask was finished.

Unfortunately, much like the episode where they're introduced, if they didn't accomplish their task or got stuck things would also get chaotic (in terms of token burn and memory usage).

Funny to see the same idea pop up again.

TZubiri
Imagine your org gets compromised and they are tracing back the vuln to a malicious package in the supply chain, and it's the Mr. Meeseks Claude Code plugin.
altano
I don't understand the configuration. How do you turn off the feedback/prompt sound?
patrickwiseman
They are suppose to be boolean fields, but it looks like the UI got mangled. I'll take a look.
dr0p
I need an Al Bundy version
delduca
Have you dropped the database? Oh yes I did!
spacemarine1
This is so good. I keep making jokes with founders I know that all AI agents are like meseeks. Life imitates art (and art imitates life).
bicepjai
Nowadays, I literally don’t get any output from Claude cod to check what is happening and it’s infuriating. I have to keep interrogating to get a sense of what is happening. This is even worse, feels like I am fighting to know what the ai is doing. Not a fan of high/ultracode effort options