Hacker News: silksowed

New comment by silksowed in "GPT-5.6"

silksowed — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:31:20 +0000

Computer-use is a big limitation that my 2015 Macbook Pro cannot handle. I find the Codex cli says it looks at the end output artifact but so often it fails to refine it into acceptable form. If it could use my computer screen and visual inputs for review, it might be able to actually design documents/powerpoints/etc. I'm juicing everything I can out of the 11 year old laptop and I'm honestly impressed at what it can still do.

New comment by silksowed in "GPT-5.6"

silksowed — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:26:35 +0000

Same here. I find the design, architecture, system design discussion to be better on Claude, but after Opus 4.6 I switched over to Codex for actual coding and love the results. I use both via the CLI and generally tell Claude to output the result of our decisions as a markdown that will be easy to read and implement by an agentic coding tool. Then I fire up Codex and read said markdown as the input of the session and way to build all the appropriate context needed. I see this as a way to step into letting the agents go run on their own and interact with each other, but I still like to steer so I put these manual steps in the flow. Letting the agents go off on their own and one shot big chunks is not reliable enough yet imo.

Show HN: Flying Drones with Natural Language

silksowed — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:03:21 +0000

Article URL: https://jakedecamp.com/product/flying-drones-with-natural-language/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804754

Points: 2

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Show HN: Building an Autonomous Drone with Codex – Hardware Phase

silksowed — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:30:03 +0000

Article URL: https://jakedecamp.com/engineering/autonomous-drone-phase-3-real-hardware/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632394

Points: 2

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New comment by silksowed in "After AI takes everything"

silksowed — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:57:35 +0000

Well said. Deciding what to build is derived by experience in the context of your problem space, and that is human centric. Makes me encouraged that as AI tooling increases in adoption, more people will build things to solve their problems. Instead of large corporations hoarding talent and then building things for people, I could see more small business success where they sit closer to the very things that need solving.

New comment by silksowed in "Fly Drones from the Browser"

silksowed — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:57:19 +0000

Interesting. I've been building around that MCP abstraction and have had some early success flying in Cosys-Airsim (and Gazebo before that): https://github.com/jakedcmp/droneserver . I am starting to realize I need to break apart the MCP interface from all the other pieces of the stack for cleaner architecture but thats pending work. My flow goes like this: LLM -> MCP tools -> droneserver -> MAVSDK/MAVLink -> PX4/Ardupilot -> Cosys-Airsim Software in the Loop testing. What is novel for me is not having to learn how to fly a drone and bringing that capability into already existing technologies like PX4 autopilot. I have been attempting to code my own mission planning so I will check out QGroundControl as that might already be a solved problem and not worth building from scratch. I have also built the foundation of video streaming back from the drone so I can run video/image perception. Once I get perception working I am hoping I can build intent level autonomy where images are analyzed according to high level mission plan and potentially re-task the drone based on that. For example, the user issues simple command to fly around the property and scan for broken parts of the fence. During flight if an image of a broken fence is perceived, then the drone stops its flight and goes closer to capture additional imaging/video and document a gps location. Still hacking things together towards a real demo so the code probably wont port over well but idk. To anyone in this thread who wants to discuss further or collaborate let me know, it seems we are all working in a similar domain but from slightly different angles. Exciting area to build, I know there is big demand for solutions in this space over the next decade.

New comment by silksowed in "Fly Drones from the Browser"

silksowed — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:38:02 +0000

Very cool, I'm working on a similar project but using MCP as the flight input layer. Would love to dm and discuss more about how you built it or collaborate.

New comment by silksowed in "Fly Drones from the Browser"

silksowed — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:36:44 +0000

Is an FPV controller any different than a regular video game controller? I interested in how hard it is to fly a drone even in a sim environment.

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

silksowed — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:25:16 +0000

Is crowd strike like a digital twin / virtual world sandbox for autonomous drones? Do you have any additional information I could check out? Been working on autonomous drone flights but eventually need a digital world to experiment in but have yet to reach that step. Debating working with Unreal Engine or NVIDIA omniverse but unsure what the right direction is.

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

silksowed — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:22:31 +0000

Been experimenting with AI -> MCP driven drone orchestration/flight would love to learn more about what your building and compare. Thoughts?

New comment by silksowed in "Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2"

silksowed — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:36:44 +0000

very excited to play around. will be attempting to see if i can get character coherence between runs. the issue with the 8s limit is its hard to stitch them together if characters are not consistent. good for short form distribution but not youtube mini series or eventual movies. another comment about IP license is indeed an issue but its why i am looking towards classical works beyond their copyright dates. my goal is to eventually work from short form, to youtube to eventual short films. tools are limited in their current form but the future is promising if i get started now.

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: What do you use for ML Hosting?"

silksowed — Wed, 03 May 2023 16:20:11 +0000

how were you able to tell this? still trying to understand what infra is better used for inference (say realtime image category matching) vs training (feeding a chatbot huge sums of data)

New comment by silksowed in "Mercedes Reveals EQE and EQS 'Acceleration Increase' Subscription Pricing"

silksowed — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:39:06 +0000

face ID scan, click to confirm more power...! very good idea that i think would do very well considering the psychology of how people spend money

New comment by silksowed in "Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff"

silksowed — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:36:00 +0000

add in an equivalent to https://www.glean.com/ to enterprise dropbox and you have a new AI product that actually solves large org problems

New comment by silksowed in "Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers"

silksowed — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:44:17 +0000

i really wonder how they are housing the desktop grade hardware. im so used to rack and stack servers (1U/2U), but do you really need that big of a chassis for a desktop cpu, a couple ram dimm's and some ssd? what are you're thoughts?

New comment by silksowed in "Rotating Sandwiches – That's It"

silksowed — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:58:45 +0000

it might be pastrami on rye time!

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)"

silksowed — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 21:24:19 +0000

very interesting space, application sent!

New comment by silksowed in "Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow"

silksowed — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:52:44 +0000

ahh makes sense. not sure how far in the coastal commission would have control, but even a 10 story building far enough in would drastically change the landscape of say the sunset district in San Francisco

New comment by silksowed in "Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow"

silksowed — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:22:11 +0000

ocean sky scrapers on the west side of the bay area? hard to even picture this

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: I'm a PM, and I want to go back to coding"

silksowed — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:54:32 +0000

totally understand where you're coming from. lots of days i feel like my job is to get the right people involved in the problem, not solve the problem myself. best of luck to you, i might find myself moving a similar direction.