Halfway through I was imagining aliens to whom this operator comes naturally and our math is weird. By the end I found out that we might be those aliens.
Six months ago, that would have been unrealistic, because we're heavily committed to the mongodb API and we make it part of our own API.
Starting in December though, Opus 4.6 made it perfectly realistic to pursue this with Claude Code as a series of personal weekend projects.
Now, despite not having any official resources on this until the last week or so, it should land in May.
This doesn't work for everything. It absolutely helps that the problem I'm solving is an "adapter pattern" problem: "make X talk like Y." And that we have a massive test suite, at multiple levels. That combination makes "here's the problem, go solve it, grind until the tests pass, don't bother me for a few hours" a realistic AI agent request.
But it's a little mind-blowing all the same. The hype around AI is so out of control, it can be easy to miss genuine "holy crap" moments.
Along the way I've written a fair bit about how to run Claude Code autonomously on your household server in a reasonably secure manner:
AWS just dropped this blog post describing the glories of AI data centers in space.
Most companies hyping this ignore the cooling problem: in space, you only have radiative cooling to rely on. Even though the temperature outside is absolute zero, radiative cooling is so inefficient that getting rid of heat is a major engineering requirement for every spacecraft.
But AWS is doubling down. They describe "natural cooling through radiators that dissipate heat into an environment hovering around minus 270 degrees" as a BENEFIT of space-based Ai datacenters.
Obviously, AWS engineers are smarter than this. And AWS is a solid business with a future, AI or no AI.
So why does AWS, a credible company with an established reputation, feel the need to echo the hype? Is there anyone left who doesn't know this is greenwashing?
"The vacuum of space provides natural cooling through radiators that dissipate heat into an environment hovering around minus 270 degrees..."
This is not how physics works. The lack of convection in space makes cooling harder, not easier. This isn't the only nonsense in the article but it's the worst part. How do we make it prohibitively embarrassing for companies to keep making this claim that AI data center cooling in space will just magically work?
"The vacuum of space provides natural cooling through radiators that dissipate heat into an environment hovering around minus 270 degrees..."
This is not how physics works. The lack of convection in space makes cooling harder, not easier. This isn't the only nonsense in the article but it's the worst part. How do we make it prohibitively embarrassing for companies to keep making this claim that AI data center cooling in space will just magically work?
I found the article itself very informative and not particularly ai-tastic. But then I got to that infographic at the end. Holy smokes was that disappointing. It seems clear they didn't even bother to read the captions the AI scribbled.
That's interesting man, that's pretty f***' interesting. I don't think I've seen it though. I've let it run for hours making changes overnight and I only do git operations manually.
Oh, but maybe allowing it to do remote git operations is a necessary trigger.
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