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wg0 • today at 8:11 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Paraphrasing from README.md:

>Spent over $400,000 in API priced tokens with GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT 6 Astra. They wrote over 1.3m lines of Rust over multiple months of /goal loops and never got past like 84% compat.

Then they let Claude code lose on the problem:

> I figured it'd be fun to throw Opus 5.5 at this. It had a working v0 in 10 hours. I assumed it kept using the code the Codex models wrote. I was wrong. Opus 5.5 started from scratch. It got further than Astra in 1/10th the time.

In the warnings from README.md

> Also worth mentioning: I've never read a line of this code.


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orthogonal_cube • today at 9:03 AM

They spent over $400k for an experimental project and published it without reading a single line of code??

I am so confused about the motivation behind this.

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nialv7 • today at 9:50 AM

throw away $400k on a failed attempt is crazy...

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