yacineMTB: A Week of Automated R&D Works Scarily Well on Hardware Project
yacineMTB · x · 2026-11-03
Ex-Meta researcher yacineMTB says he spent a week on "automated R&D" and, after 10 hours setting up the harnessing and framing the problem, the system is "working so well" he only needs 4am wake-ups for 3D printing and soldering to finish the project.
A first-hand data point on AI agents running autonomous engineering/R&D loops: frame the problem well, and the model iterates while humans handle only final physical assembly.
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