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Not at the entry price point of a hackathon, which is the point. Using AI in software hackathons are magnitudes cheaper than AI doing manual labor in hardware h

• ssl-3 4mo ago
  > Using AI in software hackathons are magnitudes cheaper than AI doing manual labor in hardware hackathons. Sure: Going all-in on the bot with the hypothetical sorter and pick-and-place delta robot and the soldering machine? That's never going to be cheap. But one doesn't have to go all-in. The bot (potentially along with an army of subagents) can ingest a goal and a list of parts on-hand and their specifications. Like an army of bots that is instructed to write code, it can sit there and iterate on designs like a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters until it finds one that actually works. The humans (remember the humans?) can sit back and have a beer while this happens, and then start the physical process of hacking the thing together once the bot gives them direction. Look at this list of suggested concepts: - Building a ridiculous Apple II application - Turning a fax machine into a social media network - Turning a Game Boy Advance into a Bloomberg terminal - Making an LLM-driven cash register that can feel love and pain - An AI voice-activated microwave If a person can't imagine ways to use the bot for these things, then are they really trying?