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My brother replaced a $1,500 machine program with one the AI built in an hour

A man bought a used piece of industrial machinery and the $1,500 control software did not come with it. With no coding experience at all, he asked the AI on the web to build a control app, and in under an hour he had a working app packaged as a .deb file for Linux. It cost him nothing because he used his brother's AI subscription.

$1,500

How it works

  1. Brother buys a used industrial machine with no control software
  2. The original software costs $1,500
  3. With no coding experience he describes what he needs to the AI on the web
  4. The AI builds a functional control app
  5. The app is packaged as a .deb file to install on Linux
  6. Done in under an hour at no cost on his brother's subscription

Why it’s worth knowing

He had never written code. The missing $1,500 program was the only thing between him and a working machine, and an hour later he had an installable app.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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