What do you mean by “ Manhattan Project it”

The Manhattan project was divided into smaller problems that were solved by experts without them fully understanding the nature of the project. Then, the solution was reassembled by a handful of experts.

You can divide a missile guidance system into smaller subsections and then either stitch the solution together by hand, or using a local AI w/o the restrictions of Claude.

split the project into disparate but logical pieces, such that each group (ie. agent) doesn't know what the other is working on, or why. Then put it all together and tada, you have a nuke!

not a good enough submarine

why would I want a replaceable battery? My airpods have been working fine for 6 years now. Isn't THAT better for the environment?

You want a replaceable battery because once the battery wears out if the repair is expensive people will throw the used air buds. Used airbuds creates electronic waste ewaste on landfills.

Not all electronic recycling ä works well some non working electronics are shipped to Africa . The "recycler" takes the profit in the pocket. People have put airtags to track where such electronics to goods end up.

There is no proof that user-replaceable batteries meaningfully reduces e-waste. A lot of tech is upgraded due to obsolete CPUs, etc, not batteries. Plus, batteries last a long time now.

Also, landfills work really well. Most recycling doesn't work and pollutes more.

It is illegal to send e-waste to landfills in California and 22 other states

by the time the battery wears out on this one, the speakers are also busted anyway (infact it already is true for mine). So battery replacement isn't an issue for me, the device will be worthless by the time I am done with it.

True. Also heard one guy in gym was thinking of Apple releasing devices with things like replaceable batteries. He got a heart attack next day. It's very unhealthy what PC is suggesting and yes I agree with you.

The creators of Beni seem to have promised that the platform will be open (including sim2real parts of Beni).

I have ordered Beni for my family. It's sturdy and more practical for careless fun.

Their current messaging is "we're busy, no promises" on dev kit or API access -- where did you see this open promise? I'm super curious.

UPDATE: That's their kickstarter customer service. Their subreddit has founders liberally promising API/devkit access, targeted at Q1 '27

i think i heard someplace that ssh/adb is open by default, if true, that is ENOUGH for me to take over and do the rest on my own.

That would be awesome. Probably worth getting a v1 and not upgrading the firmware just to be sure

I'm an early backer and plan on jailbreaking Beni ASAP. Seems like really, really cool hardware.

With Unitree bots all but banned in the US I've been looking to pivot away from that platform anyway. Took a couple months to jailbreak the Go2 platform initially, but I'm betting this will go even faster with modern agents

OR I can keep paying 15% markup till next month and then jump to newest / cheapest model with one-liner change instead of being locked to a model/provider.

Which model/provider locks like this, most of them use chatgpt style apis anyway.

That requires that you create accounts and separately manage each provider you want to use. OpenRouter removes that - if a new provider gets added, you can start using them immediately.

So, you’re paying 15% tax on all AI costs to avoid creating an account?

Aren't they all the same api? Are you paying 15 % to change one line, and not, like, three?

i just ssh to my machine (from phone etc) and run `herdr` to resume.

I am guessing this now directly competes with mitchellh's multiplexer / Superlogical.

I just wouldn't bet against Mitchell. He doesn't need the money. He does it for the love of it.

Though what I genuinely don't understand is, why then Mitchel needs funding? If he needs funding - why accept it from weird contraversial figures?

He has the freedom of choice, like no other.

What are some examples of uncontroversial figures who would be willing to offer funding, in your opinion?

Why not Mitchel himself? Without anyone else.

Seeding superlogical wouldn’t make a dent to his “10 digit bank account”. Probably not much more expensive than airplane hobby.

why even take funding at all?

Reach

whats the closest to this that exists today? (??? + pick and place?)

I'm not the expert but Gemini doesn't say anything exists besides the Voltera V-One (which obviously doesn't work for complex PCBs). I am imagining something like a PCB microfactory the size of a container (or even smaller) that completely handles PCB etch and drill, solder paste application, PnP, baking, and testing.

That would be super cool. Difficulty comes with multi-layer PCBs, hard to find a solution for laminating.

PCBA lines are largely automated as of today, issues start when you do high-mix work. Most time ends up being spent switching between jobs and programming machines, meaning that tool usage time is low.

> Automating AI research is terrifying.

what why?

It depends what they mean by automating. But the classic argument goes:

* Each new generation of models has emergent capabilities we did not anticipate.

* We already have trouble monitoring and controlling the current generation (see HuggingFace incident).

* The more we let models shape their successors, the more out-of-distribution each generation's learning environment becomes.

* If not done carefully, we risk creating extraordinarily intelligent and powerful models with unintended behaviors, like deceptiveness or power-seeking.

Skynet.

Probably better than rushing the top comment only.