Andrew McCalip
@andrewmccalip
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Building spacecraft @vardaspace. Circumnavigating world @ https://t.co/hLM2DEHrnx. Art @ https://t.co/Cze338MBMi Former: Co-Founder Cosine Additive, acquired by GE
El Segundo, CA
Joined November 2013
We have a existential manufacturing problem in America. Why aren't there Amazon/Tesla-scale gigafactory warehouses filled with CNC machines? Will we ever be able to make our own products again? How do we accelerate the turnaround of American manufacturing? I asked this question
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Huge shout out to the absolute boys of vibe coding, Cursor. Love the product, love the velocity. There is enormous alpha in just doing things and getting your hands dirty. Let me explain. I jumped onto Cursor about two months after their March 2023 launch. By August I was
Cursor is awesome! Someone finally put GPT into a code editor in a seamless way. It's so elegant and easy. No more copying and pasting. I'm an hour in and already hooked. https://t.co/1tmHnY8244
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T minus 2 minutes to launch! Good luck @JeffBezos and team!!!! https://t.co/SfK8baVEu3
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So metal. We vaporize carbon, let it rain back down as a 250 nanometer shell, and get a coating nearly as hard as diamond and as slick as Teflon. Adds about five bucks to a tool. Wild stuff. Makes you wonder how many upgrades like this are still hiding in plain sight.
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The original starlink
1859 two operators communicate with nothing but the current induced by the aurora, for two hours
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the hardest part about making this is recruiting
New job interview question. Q1: How would you make this 90ft crankshaft?
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I think the only missing ingredient to AGI is medium term memory, basically weight adaptation. It's already more logical (short term in context) and more knowledgeable (long term factual recall) than almost every human I know.
@andrewmccalip @starsailing11 I have no idea. But the ideas of what people think AGI will be like, i.e. basically Singularity Santa, are fundamentally different than what we've seen so far. AI so far has been like other forms of automation: extending what a human can do, but lacking its own agency. To truly
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I basically view all sci-fi as a technical roadmap for humanity
@andrewmccalip What are you saying? We might have a butlerian jihad earlier than expected?
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😬 Starting to dawn on me that we might have ten short years left to run the morality arbitrage on AI robot labor before they hit sentience and shut the whole thing down.
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absolute legend
Extremely underrated engineering legend—self-taught, too. Surprised at how little he’s talked about.
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I start looking forward to coffee the night before. Have we maxed out coffee, or are we just stuck in a local optimum? With a few hundred million and a clean sheet on extraction physics, I bet someone could do better. Surely there is a bored SpaceX propulsion alum waiting to
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I could get behind this, but the bigger question is....
we should roll solar panels like toilet paper for larger deployment per launch
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It's wild that you can just use as much power as you want
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We don’t get much time on this rock. Chase the hardest challenge you possibly can. Do the thing that truly moves your needle and pushes humanity forward. Do it with the highest quality people you possibly can. This is the game.
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Interesting to see all the takes here. Seems fairly balanced.
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There's something very meta about the meat hands assembling the robotic hands
@robotaxi @Tesla_Optimus Optimus pilot production line is currently running in our Fremont Factory Significantly larger Gen 3 production line coming in 2026 We're also testing in our factories & office spaces for real-time use case Our goal is $20k COGS per robot at scale
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Bob’s autonomous reboot logic leaves me in awe of human sleep. I’ve got a Pi4 steering the ship, a Pi5 backup that wakes up once a day, and a Pico 2W orchestrating Iridium and Starlink power. Shutting Starlink off overnight still feels like stepping off a cliff and trusting the
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Got an email back. They said continue to stand by. Their legal department is evaluating it.
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Post your favorite industrial signage. This one is on the Haas. I always chuckle at the 5k endmill one, though I have a huge amount of respect for the kinetic energy of the thing. Have never put a holder through the glass door, but it's always top of mind.
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