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HIC Blog
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HIC Blog is the company blog at hic-ai.com, writing about ai and programming. Since 2026, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Tool-Response Engineering: The Frontier Beyond Prompt Engineering”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts and a paper on engineering tools for AI coding agents, including the Mouse precise-editing paper. HN commenters doubt its benchmarks and describe the claims as hype.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mouse is the first tool proven to reduce Execution Slop. 3.6× faster, 56% first-try accuracy, 58% lower cost than baseline tools.
Most-linked posts?
- Tool-Response Engineering: The Frontier Beyond Prompt Engineering2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-12
- Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-06
- /papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-05
What Hacker News says?
AI infrastructure/tools developer and researcher here (hic-ai.com). I fully agree with Armin's concerns. I wrote an article recently ( https://hic-ai.com/blog/tool-response-engineering ) in which I argued that AI tool-engineering is the new frontier beyond prompts, and it talks about the agent loop and engineering loops, but boy I have a completely different perspective than Boris's. Rather than contending that prom…
Comment linking /blog/tool-response-engineering
on “The Coming Loop”Submitted Tool-Response Engineering: The Frontier Beyond Prompt Engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Both conditions used GitHub Copilot (Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Haiku 4.5, depending on study) running in VS Code within isolated Docker containers. The only difference was Mouse tool availability. ( https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf ) Haiku/Sonnet 4.5 on GitHub Copilot is not a valid comparison whatsoever. You need to benchmark against Claude Code running Opus. I mean, being revolutionary is a big claim to…
Comment linking /papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf
on “Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents”Submitted Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNot sure what would make you think that. https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf seems like an awfully lot of trouble to go through for a joke that isn't even funny. HIC AI is a Delaware corporation, registration number 10476082, incorporated 1/16/2026.
Comment linking /papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf
on “Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents”Submitted AI file editing is broken as a story · 1 points
HN discussion“the most powerful AI agent file-editing tool in the world […] patent-pending”… tl;dr: turn tool calls into more structured loops, give it some fancy name and slop about it https://hic-ai.com/blog/tool-response-engineering Good luck with that
Comment linking /blog/tool-response-engineering
on “Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents”
