What do you think is the most complex thing here, genuinely? Masten Space's Xombie first flew in 2009 and has done 227 launches and landings.
These are of course small rockets with modest performance. So maybe the hard part is the scale or the mass optimization to a real orbital rocket's first stage.
Again, not saying it's easy, just trying to get insightful comments on what are the hard parts more specifically.
Consistent and sufficient funding that won't evaporate when you inevitably fail the first few times. Investors and political officials get a bit upset when the billion dollar prototype they funded crashes and burns two or three times in a row. But that's kind of what it takes.
I'm foremost a guitar player which probably shows, so this was something I assumed could be a problem indeed. I'll have to think about it, but many of the suggestions sounds good. It's really easy to do feature development with the automatic deployment after pushing.
I also on purpose built this without checking what other pages are out there. I only checked afterwards, and it turned out at least sampling the search results a bit, every page seems to have somewhat different focus so I didn't end up creating exactly what already was done by very many others.
How does that influence how you feel about the result? As you more proud, or less (than if you hadn’t used AI)? If the app has a problem, do you care more or less?
I guess I have a lot less emotional attachment to the end product. But it was fun building it, as I didn't have to deal with all the not fun stuff like learning syntax and libraries and compatibility issues etc.
For working with data, I certainly like lists and trees with automated layout and dislike 2d space with human drag-and-drop layouts.
I assume most people are like this, and the start menu was a huge improvement. Most people would have been lost if it was just windows and icons freely floating in a 2d space.
Between stable and contract honoring entities it's also possible to trade for things that not everyone produces, or do large long term investments in things like mines or refineries outside your own territory.
I live in a place that has harsh winter conditions with ice, gravel and the occasional loose tire stud flying into people's windshields, warranting frequent expensive replacements.
Somebody on the radio said that "just set the adaptive cruise control to max distance and your windshield will last way longer". It does feel overprotective at times, especially in slow and dense traffic, but I think there's a nice point in general.
Another trick that works is just to let the windshield get cracked once. Then it will be immune to further rock strikes. Studies have shown that freshly replaced windshields are 937% more likely to be hit with a rock.
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