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@yiliuai: One of my biggest takeaways at MIT is that the world is just a giant makeshift operation. I experienced it deeply again today. This semester I'm taking a course on AI Agents, which requires group projects (the professor said he prefers infra over app layer). Inspired by my previous project connecting an LLM to a vibrator, and because I'm interested in hardware, I originally wanted to build a protocol or middleware layer that allows AI agents to connect and control most hardware. Coincidentally, another MIT undergrad wanted to do something similar; he invited me to join after learning about my vibrator project. But after careful consideration, I abandoned this project and instead chose another more superficial app-layer project. (I don't care about grades anymore, and I couldn't find a project I was both interested in and saw promise for.) My reason for giving up on this direction I was initially very interested in: I believed it had neither commercial value nor any technical moat.

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-05-07

The author shares an experience in an MIT AI Agent course, reflecting on the reasons for abandoning a project aimed at connecting AI agents to hardware, and criticizes a competing project that won high praise from judges and VCs merely by integrating and packaging a simple robotic arm interface.

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@FinanceYF5: This is so cool—some MIT students turned an entire building into a playable giant Tetris game one Saturday night by fitting every window with LEDs. MIT students are truly something else!!!

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-04-22 Cached

MIT students turned an entire building into a playable giant Tetris by fitting every window with LEDs.

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@cyber_cat7: A college student blew his $2,400 scholarship on an iPad and a Mac Mini. Parents thought: for studying. Roommate thought: crypto mining. Truth? He cloned 39 AI agents from GitHub, hit Enter, and went to sleep. When he woke, the terminal had…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-04-21 Cached

A Chinese college student spent his $2,400 scholarship on an iPad and Mac Mini to run 39 open-source AI agents overnight, completing four days of junior-developer work with zero bugs or supervision.

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@FinanceYF5: This is so cool—some MIT students turned an entire building into a playable giant Tetris game one Saturday night by fitting every window with LEDs. MIT students are truly something else!!!

@cyber_cat7: A college student blew his $2,400 scholarship on an iPad and a Mac Mini. Parents thought: for studying. Roommate thought: crypto mining. Truth? He cloned 39 AI agents from GitHub, hit Enter, and went to sleep. When he woke, the terminal had…

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