Austen Allred
@Austen
Founder http://GauntletAI.com. Will tweet as I wish and suffer the consequences.
Gauntlet challenger @bishibop is building AI-generated conversion from Fortran 77 to Fortran 90. Upgrading the entire SLATEC library written in the 90s. 178,000 lines of Fortran.
Extending to Fortran and Assembly
I used to think like this, but the more you analyze it the more you realize the world is already designed for humans, so if you have humanoid robots you don’t need to rebuild everything else
I love the old timey inefficiency of shaping the robots for every task like men. Why shouldn't the popcorn machine just be able to dispense popcorn and butter using its own big arms
We’re less than 12 hours in and engineers at Gauntlet are already shipping great stuff in: Fortran Assembly COBOL In massively complex and nasty code environments. Unless you’re literally working on the Linux kernel, I never want to hear, “AI won’t work for what I do” again.
Kicking off my favorite week at Gauntlet AI: Adding significant user-facing features to massive legacy codebases. Older programming languages, versioning issues, convoluted templating, funky CI/CD. AI still must write 100% of the code. Challengers have one week.
Hahahahaha
This isn’t a glitch Many companies have a “no first class” policy So United is now charging more for Economy Plus on popular business flights
brudda if you want your son high level ai send him 2-3 months Austin and forget
We are officially accepting applications for @joingauntletai Cohort 3 starting on Oct 13. apply.gauntletai.com
Classic
For the record, @Roblox MCP is terrible. It can only insert. Gauntlet challenger is planning a complete redo.
immediate no-hire, what a slacker
just found this guy, what in the f-ing hell
It’s kind of beautiful how we have basically zero shared experiences in our modern siloed society. Nothing reaches everybody. Other than a couple cheating at a Coldplay concert for some reason.
We have a couple projects next week that are, “Can I take this old 10m line codebase and move it entirely to a modern stack without breaking anything in one week?” Betting the answer is yes. We’ll see. The cost of technical debt is about to be 1/100th of what it used to be.
The ability to get good at this and then go to Fortune 50 companies almost as an individual as say “For $5M I will handle the technical debt in your legacy code.” Is HUGE
I automatically send anything with “unsubscribe” or similar to trash and start every day with a mass archive at this point. AI agents aren’t reliable enough to do it for me yet but I’m sure they will be soon.
These AI-generated cold emails are getting out of hand..... do the inboxes evolve or do we find new ways to message?
How many times does Zuck have to run this playbook? If there is a massive golden goose that is big enough and disruptive enough to kill *your* golden goose, it makes sense to pay almost any number of your golden eggs to take control of it. Instagram, WhatsApp… same playbook
Zuck seems desperate: - meta $300m/4yr offer still isn't enough to poach some openAI top researchers - zuck even pitched Mark Chen (oAI CRO) with a $1B offer woah... that shows panic mode and the level of resistance suggests openAI is working on something big
And when Gauntlet AI challengers are using AI to write bulletproof features in legacy deprecated COBOL codebases I never have to hear that AI doesn’t work for legacy code again, right?
To give you an idea: I’m offering a $1,000 bounty for anyone who can do the challenge in a massive COBOL codebase