[simonw]

Yeah, the "dark factory" thing is basically unproven right now. I reported on what I'd seen because it was genuinely fascinating, and a potential glimpse into how this stuff might work. I'm not ready to say that it's a good idea or that it's demonstrated to work outside of a demo I saw for an hour a couple of months ago that looked credible to me at the time.

[ElFitz]

> Yeah, the "dark factory" thing is basically unproven right now.

Isn’t that as close as "it" gets for now?

> but then I started trusting the model more and more. These days I don’t read much code anymore. I watch the stream and sometimes look at key parts, but I gotta be honest - most code I don’t read. I do know where which components are and how things are structured and how the overall system is designed, and that’s usually all that’s needed.

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed

[ben_w]

> Isn’t that as close as "it" gets for now?

Always has been.

Even when I was a kid, people were saying all software is either a prototype or obsolete.

The difference is the cycle got compressed from half of what we know becoming obsolete every 18 months, we just don't know which half, to every 18 weeks.