joshuabaker2
Joined 10 years ago
Joined 10 years ago
We also used to have windmills to grind grain and then switched over to mills that use electricity or fossil fuels. But of course, windmills to generate electricity have become quite popular. What's old can be new again when combined with modern technologies.
I used to be part of a team back in university making autonomous sailboats [1] and one of the things that I was surprised by when working on this was that there are a TON of hurricanes out in the middle of the ocean (we were working to build it to cross the Atlantic). We built a system to take in weather prediction data to try to avoid hurricanes, but we were building a relatively tiny boat—do large shipping vessels do this as well? I'd assume they can sail through pretty bad weather. If so, do you have ways to lower the sails easily to protect them?
Additionally, do you have any software to help inform the vessel operators how to best sail into the wind or are the net savings not worth it considering most of the propulsion is still coming from fuel-based sources?
Overall, this is super exciting and best of luck!
[1] Now at (https://www.ubcsailbot.org/)
More generally, this looks really awesome and also really enjoyed your team's blog post detailing the GPUI implementation (even though large parts of it went over my head)
I'm imagining it would be quite challenging to add in e.g. an auth system to an existing backend service and have it match the same coding paradigm as the rest of the app but maybe there'd be some way of annotating your code with comments to make it easier on this system to understand what it's looking at?
Suggestion: the PRs should be draft PRs, otherwise it'll probably be very noisy for teams.
Also, have you thought about doing any integrations with Replit? They are a yc company too and seem to be going all-in on AI and I think the bulk of their user-base is students and junior developers so there might be some synergy there.