Your AI Agent Can Now Groan While Untangling Your Vibe Coded Mess

In brief

• Endless Toil is a new GitHub plugin that plays escalating human groans as your AI agent reads increasingly cursed code in real time.
• It joins a growing tradition of making tech emit moaning sounds, from the ThinkPad nubmoan project to SlapMac, which made $5,000 in three days by letting you slap your MacBook until it screams.
• The internet's obsession with making AI suffer—from moan-inducing jailbreaks to tutorials on making ChatGPT visibly angry—is, apparently, a whole genre now.

Someone finally did it. A developer named Andrew Vos published a GitHub plugin called Endless Toil that makes your coding agent emit human groans while it reads through your code. The worse the code, the louder and more desperate the sounds get.

"Hear your agent suffer through your code," the repo reads. It works by running alongside agents like Claude or Codex in real time, scanning the code being processed and triggering escalating recorded groans based on how cursed things look. A mild mess gets a soft whimper. A true atrocity gets the full wail.

Now, you may think this is a dumb repo, and you wouldn’t be wrong. But 2026 being what it is, it already made its way through the circle of AI geeks who love the weird side of tech media.

“As engineering teams adopt coding agents, the next challenge is understanding not just what agents produce, but how the codebase feels to work inside,” Andrew, the CTO of Endless Toil wrote in Hacker News. “Endless Toil gives developers a real-time signal for complexity, maintainability, and architectural strain by translating code quality into escalating human audio feedback.

The wild part is this isn't even a niche idea. There's an entire subgenre of tech projects dedicated to making devices produce uncomfortable sounds. Take nubmoan, a C program that makes the ThinkPad's famous red TrackPoint nub moan when you press it. It has 292 stars on GitHub. People use it. People want this.

Then there's SlapMac, the macOS app that uses your Mac’s accelerometer to detect when you slap it, and screams back. Amsterdam-based developer Tonino Catapano vibe coded the whole thing in 48 hours, put it up for $7, and watched the sales roll in. Within three days: 7,000 installs and over $5,000 in revenue. He later added "USB Moaner" mode, which makes the laptop react every time you plug something in. Zero irony. Full roadmap.