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Hacker News |Technology |Sep 11, 2026

AI Software Factory Burns Thousands of Dollars, Produces Nothing of Value in Weekend Experiment

The author described a 35-hour experiment where an AI model was given full autonomy to build a Python software factory, ultimately burning approximately 4 billion tokens and $1,200 in API costs without delivering any useful output.