Yacine: 10 hours of harness setup unlocked wild progress on his dog-shit-compute drone project
yacineMTB · x · 2026-11-03
Well-known AI builder yacine shares that after his newborn ate up all his free time, a single Sunday granted by his wife was enough: 10 hours of setting up the harnessing and framing the problem made his hobby project — making drones fly on terrible compute — work shockingly well. His takeaway: getting the problem framing and scaffolding right is what unlocks the breakthrough.
Related event: Yacine Powers Through Drone Side Project with Automated R&D(3 posts)→
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