Hacker News: BatFastard

New comment by BatFastard in "Tesla Roadster"

BatFastard — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:07:01 +0000

Two thumbs up for the Slate vehicles. Simple, cheap, non trackable.

New comment by BatFastard in "Tesla Roadster"

BatFastard — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:52:44 +0000

Did you see 0 to 60 in 0.81 second, now THAT is flying!

New comment by BatFastard in "How to engineer an AI harness for game development"

BatFastard — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:31:18 +0000

I pretty much agree with everything he said.

I've been building virtual worlds, games and game engines for 25 years, and the last year has been amazing. Last December was the start of a revolution, and in the ten months since, the models have just kept getting better.

These days I can sic Opus 5.5 on ten issues from my todo list, go to bed, and wake up to them fixed. It's always faster than I would have been, but speed isn't what impresses me. It holds every issue in mind at once and connects them in ways I never did.

It has real limits. It's great at connecting what's already there, but it doesn't invent anything. It's weak on visual detail, and consistency is a foreign word to it. You have to keep steering it. Do that well and it will blow you away.

Whenever I have tokens to spare, I point it at architecture reviews, code reviews and security reviews. It keeps the codebase tight.

Over the last year it has written 250k lines of code for me, it has generated all of the icons for the game, it has written retargeters to take Maximo animations and put them on my model. Damn.

New comment by BatFastard in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

BatFastard — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:17:46 +0000

I was looking at those costs think wow, that is high.

Then I realized I was spending 3600.00 USD for Anthropic and OpenAI per year.

New comment by BatFastard in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

BatFastard — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:47:28 +0000

I would say paying 50,000 USD per year for tokens to double productivity is cheap.

And hopefully they are just paying that per developer, not per employee.

New comment by BatFastard in "Show HN: Pumpkins.sh – claim, carve, and display a pumpkin to the world"

BatFastard — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:32:44 +0000

Fun, thx for sharing

New comment by BatFastard in "Everyone's Packing Up"

BatFastard — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:54:08 +0000

But I love the smell of freshly carved wood, you would miss out on that.

New comment by BatFastard in "Everyone's Packing Up"

BatFastard — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:05:13 +0000

I agree dream bigger!

If it gets done too fast with LLM you need to think bigger.

New comment by BatFastard in "Factorio that you can touch"

BatFastard — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:00:28 +0000

If ONLY I had know to buy 16 GB of VRam on my cards. I have 12, but they struggle.

Hell if I had know that a 5090 would be worth 6000 USD I would have brought as many of them as I could for 2000 USD!

New comment by BatFastard in "Factorio that you can touch"

BatFastard — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:55:44 +0000

You think Factorio its self is bad? Try the Space Exploration mod! It expands the game with a ton of fun new problems.

New comment by BatFastard in "Claude Opus 5.5"

BatFastard — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:55:31 +0000

I prefer Astra for creative uses, Fable seems better for hardcore coding.

New comment by BatFastard in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"

BatFastard — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:43:19 +0000

True, but do you need a 10,000 dollar machine to do so?

I would love to find an excuse to buy a 10,000 dollar machine! But I cant find one yet. My current cloud bill is in excess of 400 USD per month. Just can't achieve frontier model capabilities locally.

New comment by BatFastard in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"

BatFastard — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:08:21 +0000

Anthropic is reporting 100 Billion ARR.

Even if you could get a frontier model, you would not be able to run it on any Mac. So speculating on what M7 or M9 will achieve in 5 years (if we even still exist) seems pointless.

New comment by BatFastard in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"

BatFastard — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:02:56 +0000

>A more apples-to-apples comparison

Don't you mean an Apple to NVidea comparison?

New comment by BatFastard in "I think you should almost never use AI to write"

BatFastard — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:53:18 +0000

I use an antagonistic agent to review and refute its findings, works great.

New comment by BatFastard in "Ask HN: AI Panic, you buying it?"

BatFastard — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:45:20 +0000

Read https://ai-2027.com/

This prediction has proven quite accurate so far.

Don't think anyone should panic, but people should be aware.

New comment by BatFastard in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

BatFastard — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:40:27 +0000

Has anyone read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_War:_A_Scenario

Sounds like there already exist some pretty crazy biological weapons in existence. I dont know if it will be 5 years or 20 years, but at some point some fanatic will try to kill the rest of us.

New comment by BatFastard in "Can AI design circuit boards yet?"

BatFastard — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:15:09 +0000

And software engineers have a right solution? Guess again.

New comment by BatFastard in "iPhone Duo"

BatFastard — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:46:23 +0000

I can't argue with that model, but in the past they actually did new and interesting things! The M series processor, the iPhone. Lets hope new CEO who is more of an engineer then the last one was ramps things up.

New comment by BatFastard in "iPhone Duo"

BatFastard — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:34:29 +0000

Go Apple, bring up the rear!

Can they even do anything new?