alt Hacker News> Starting from an empty folder, the model coordinated over 1,000 subagents, working around the clock for eight days writing, testing, and reviewing code. It produced a working operating system that boots on a laptop
This, to me, shows a problem I have with AI: it is reinforcing inequalities. This is literally brute-forcing an OS by throwing money out the window.
It does not sound AT ALL like a clever way to build an OS. But they can do it because they have orders of magnitudes more money to spend on that than people who would actually know how to build an OS.
The thing is, brute-forcing software may be the best solution to make money. So if you are rich and can brute force software in a dumb way, chances are that you can make a business out of it. If you're poor but know what you are doing, you cannot compete.
Technically, it is impressive that they can get a program to do that, but they are wasting money and energy doing it.
To me, this is a very pertinent take. Vibe coding large projects (even with SOTA models) reliably creates messes at a frequency too large to yield even moderately polished consumer products. It still needs human guidance.
But I'd call false dichotomy on this:
> brute-forcing software may be the best solution to make money. So if you are rich and can brute force software in a dumb way, chances are that you can make a business out of it. If you're poor but know what you are doing, you cannot compete.
Seems to me like the big winners will have know-how and some money to throw at AI.