35 hours later, the factory has delivered absolutely nothing of value and also not taught me anything about how to operate a better one.

I bet people on twitter were all "your doing it wrong bro"

In the middle of a conversation the agent ran into “Bad file descriptor” on a test and Astra decided it needs to see if file descriptors can be passed over Unix sockets on macOS in a super compressed manner

(...) it used Bash to run Python to then run Node.js to then use Node.js to invoke PowerShell.

Now that's worthy of a "what the fucking fuck is it even doing"

In the 35 hours it burned around 1B tokens for a total of around 1200 USD in raw API costs. It managed to produce 79 commits, and that comes to a cost of around 15.5 USD per commit, and the agents exchanged around 1400 messages.

I honestly do not need an agent to run for 35 hours on a single prompt. It clearly does not work or result in reasonable outputs.

Yup, it checks out with vibe coding in general