47 comments

  • bensyverson an hour ago

    This idea reads like a joke, but there's something to it.

    One feature request: In addition to high-level milestones, it would be cool if a partially-funded project would generate a public, highly detailed implementation plan.

    Also, IANAL but MIT is still a license with a copyright holder. I don't think saying "it's MIT, we all own it" is defensible. The courts might view all this code as public domain.

  • parliament32 32 minutes ago

    I love how even the "demo build" doesn't work. https://fablepool.com/projects/7

    Rather, it did work at milestone 14, but then regressed at milestone 15, where it changed the link from a wikimedia image to a nonexistent file in /assets (despite still having the "Photo via Wikimedia Commons" caption).

  • nine_k an hour ago

    Hear me out: the same idea, but hire live developers.

    (Given the price of tokens, it can even be not entirely a joke.)

    • bcjordan 12 minutes ago

      This was a pre-LLM YC startup AssemblyMade which was basically this

    • skeledrew an hour ago

      Not affordable, unless the devs are in somewhere like Vietnam. And there's still no way they can build as fast. And still, at that price point, quality would be highly questionable. So yh this doesn't survive beyond the joke stage.

      • nine_k an hour ago

        The mention of quality puts it firmly into the joke territory, indeed.

    • tptacek 23 minutes ago

      I don't understand how that would not be a complete joke even if tokens were 2 orders of magnitude more expensive than they are.

    • electronsoup an hour ago

      If you put that behind an API, you could sell the service much like the AI providers

      • satvikpendem an hour ago

        And then get sued for fraud and go under, like Builder.ai

        • fragmede 43 minutes ago

          What if, and I know this is utterly batshit insane to suggest, but what if we don't lie about what we're doing?

    • cortesoft 10 minutes ago

      how expensive do you think tokens are, and/or how cheap do you think a developer is?

    • sailingparrot an hour ago

      Thats called Kickstarter

    • a1o 23 minutes ago

      It can work for students as a grant

  • raincole 6 minutes ago

    Man, I really hope this kind of effort could be put into auditing the security situation of open source projects (via Mythos or not.)

  • fuddle an hour ago

    I feel like using Fable in the name is a mistake, who knows how long that model will be around.

    • an0malous 33 minutes ago

      You could call it aiproductsexchange.com

      • andrewstuart2 30 minutes ago

        Bold move leaving out the dash between words a la experts-exchange lol.

    • vlovich123 an hour ago

      It's how they name classes of models, presumably this implies something about the relative quantization / size of model, not about the specific performance. E.g. Fabel 5 will be better than Opus 5, better than Sonnet 5, etc. The 5 is the version number of the particular iteration / training run at this class of model.

      • pseudocoup 33 minutes ago

        I think they mean: I feel like using [Sonnet/Opus/Fable] in the name [URL] is a mistake, who knows how long that model will be around

    • aaronbrethorst an hour ago
  • xpct an hour ago

    Before putting in money to this small anonymous website, I'd love to hear about the people behind the project. There's a single mention of 'Barras Industries', but not much mention about them online, or what else they've worked on.

  • brikym 18 minutes ago

    I think the bottleneck is testing. I want to build a replacement for Zwift, a virtual gym game for bike trainers and treadmills, but testing it could be difficult without a real person on real hardware. How does the LLM know about the hardware protocols and stuff like that.

  • TrueGeek an hour ago

    So the completed sample was estimated at $0.35, actually cost $0.52, but spend $0.55

    This bot is almost as bad as I am at estimating projects.

    • pitched 20 minutes ago

      Did it not charge anything for the estimation itself? I wonder what model they’re using for that

    • MeetingsBrowser 20 minutes ago

      > Build a completely greenroom, open source AWS

      > est. total target $516.00

      Lol

      • pitched 14 minutes ago

        A lot of AWS is built on open-source. This is obviously ignoring hardware costs. I don’t know if it is all that ridiculous anymore. These models are very good at wiring together open-source systems. The world is crazy right now…

  • 3adk1a 32 minutes ago

    Everything turns into a computer game and entertainment.

    Maybe add a "Build a worm that shuts down all Anthropic data centers."

    • pitched 13 minutes ago

      This, unfortunately, gets flagged for cyber and you would need to be on the unlocked Mythos.

  • JohnMakin 10 minutes ago

    "I want an open source AWS" with $500 budget made me guffaw

  • xyzsparetimexyz an hour ago

    Fantastic idea for a rug pull

  • 0xferruccio 18 minutes ago

    This is a genius idea, I love it!!

  • stonesy88 30 minutes ago

    Brilliant idea! We need consensus protocols for voting on phases. Similar to the "twitch" plays Pokemon phenomenom.

  • evanwolf an hour ago

    Kinda fun but the approach today is strictly oneshot. Waiting for agentswithwallets to post.

  • suddenlybananas an hour ago

    https://fablepool.com/projects/7 It didn't even put a picture in!

  • keyle an hour ago

    This is literally an idea by the primegean on his YouTube under predictions. Self prophecy really with his reach but credit where it's due?

  • skeledrew an hour ago

    Is this the new open source?

  • Eridrus 2 hours ago

    Hell yeah, $516 for a complete AWS replacement, I'm in lol!

    • ____tom____ 18 minutes ago

      Reminds of the four college kids that were going to clone Facebook. Turns out it's hard than it looks, if you have never tried it.

    • MeetingsBrowser 17 minutes ago

      I wonder how the estimates are being created.

      I doubt an LLM would estimate an AWS rewrite to cost $500.

  • johnwheeler an hour ago

    This is a good idea and for features and modifications you can make it so whoever chips in the most money gets more votes.

    This is one of those ideas that sounds bad on paper (Like people renting out their houses. But if implemented correctly could get some traction.

  • colesantiago an hour ago

    This is a fantastic idea.

    There are lots of projects, software that shouldn't be SaaS subscriptions that Fable can build in public that can be free for everyone and also OSS.

  • orliesaurus 19 minutes ago

    Ok who wants to pool up to build GTA 7? /s

  • MattyLinky 2 hours ago

    This is such a good idea. Hell yeah