If you’ve spent any time with AI coding agents lately — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, whatever your flavor — you know the drill. You kick off a task, tab over to Slack or Reddit, and then completely forget your agent finished three minutes ago. Or worse, it’s been sitting there waiting for permission while you’re watching YouTube. That dead time adds up fast.

[Peon Ping](https://github.com/PeonPing/peon-ping) fixes this in the most entertaining way possible. It’s an open-source notification system that plays Warcraft III Peon voice lines — yes, the “Work, work” and “Ready to work” ones — whenever your AI agent completes a task or needs your approval. The moment I heard about it, I knew this was going to blow up.

And blow up it did. The project [hit 936 points on Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985151) with roughly 300 comments, making it one of the hottest AI dev tool posts this month. The comment section alone is worth reading — half nostalgia trip, half genuine productivity discussion.

But here’s the thing: it’s not just Warcraft sounds. There are over 40 sound packs covering StarCraft Battlecruisers, GLaDOS from Portal, Red Alert 2 Soviet Engineers, Team Fortress 2, and even Zelda. The whole system is built on something called the Coding Event Sound Pack Specification (CESP), an open standard that any IDE can adopt. You can even create and share your own packs.

On the compatibility front, [Peon Ping](https://www.peonping.com/) supports Claude Code natively and has adapters for Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Kilo CLI, Kiro, Windsurf, and Google Antigravity. It runs on macOS, Linux, WSL2, and Windows. Installation is dead simple — `brew install` on Mac or a one-liner shell script.

What makes this work beyond the novelty is that it actually solves a real workflow problem. Different events get different voice lines: a greeting when a session starts, an acknowledgment when a task kicks off, a completion sound when it’s done, and an error cue when something breaks. You can toggle categories, adjust volume for office-friendly levels, and it sends desktop notifications too.

It’s one of those projects that sounds like a joke but turns out to be genuinely useful. The nostalgia hook gets you to install it, and the productivity boost keeps it running. If you’re juggling multiple AI agent sessions throughout the day, give it a shot — your inner 2003 gamer will thank you.