To me I really like how embedding shapes took things in his own hands and actually built it. It really proved a point at such a scale where I don't think any recent example can point to.

It's great to see hackernews be so core part of it haha.

> I thought "build a browser that renders HTML+CSS" was the perfect task for demonstrating a massively parallel agent setup because it couldn't be productively achieved in a few thousand lines of code by a single coding agent. Turns out I was wrong!

I do wonder if tech people from future/present are gonna witness this as a goliath vs david story. 20k 1 human 1 agent beats 5 million$ 1.6 millions loc browser changing how even the massive AI users/pioneers at the time thought about the use of AI

Looks like I have watched some documentaries recently but why do I feel like a documentary about this whole thing can be created in future.

But also, More and more I am feeling like AI is an absolute black box, nobody knows how to do things but we are all kind of doing experiments with it and seeing what sticks (like how we now have definitive proof that 1 human 1 agent > many agents no human in the loop)

And this is when we are 1 month in 2026, who knows what other experiments and proofs happen this year to find more about this black box, and about its usefulness or not.

Simon, it would be interesting if you could read the thread of predictions of 2026 thread in hn each month or quaterly to see how many people were wrong or right about AI as we figure out more things perhaps.