The upcoming @reactjs docs are setting the bar so freaking high in terms of overall quality (information architecture, aesthetics, performance, approachability…)
A 19-year-old turned his phone into the controller for a real drone in 4 hours with Claude
The drone was in his hand. The simulator was on his MacBook. The phone bridged them
His name is Kai. The drone is a $99 DJI Tello sitting on his desk. The MacBook is running a custom 3D drone simulator with a green wireframe grid. The phone is showing a virtual joystick interface he built that morning
The simulator on screen shows the drone hovering above the grid. Kai's thumb is on his phone. The drone on the MacBook tilts forward. The physical drone in his other hand spins its props at the same angle
One input. Two drones move. Sim and real, synced.
He built all three pieces with Claude Opus 4.8 in one session. He typed three prompts. Total
"Build me a 3D drone simulator in the browser. Use Three.js. Quadcopter physics, gravity, drag, motor RPM per axis. Green wireframe environment."
"Now add a websocket server so a phone can control the drone in this sim. Phone shows a joystick UI. The drone in the browser reacts in real time."
"Now make the same websocket also send the same control values to a real drone over the Tello SDK. Make the sim and the real drone fly in parallel from the same input."
Claude wrote the Three.js sim. The websocket server. The mobile joystick UI. The UDP bridge to the physical drone. The drift correction loop. All of it
Kai did not write a line of code. Claude told him which files to paste into
4 hours from "I wonder if I could" to a phone flying a real drone through a wireframe world
The simulator alone would have been a $4,000 freelance project last year. The control bridge would have been another $6,000. Most senior devs would have quoted 3 weeks
Kai shipped it the same Saturday
He posted a 28-second clip to TikTok that night
1.9M views in 36 hours
4 drone hardware startups in his DMs by morning. Two offered to fly him out. One offered him equity
He is 19. He is still in college. He took the meeting from his dorm room with the same drone hovering behind him
His CS professor had told the class that semester that AI would "augment programmers, not replace the discipline."
Kai built more shippable software in one Saturday than he had built in 3 semesters of coursework
The internet said building real-world hardware control needed embedded engineers and months of firmware work
He did it on a school laptop with a model that wrote every line
Lewis & Neymar - two legends still showing out on the big stage 🫂
Lewis Hamilton reacts to Neymar posting “remember who you are” following his first appearance at the 2026 World Cup ⚽️
#F1# #AustrianGP#
Giannis Antetokounmpo reacts to someone impersonating him as a Miami Heat player on IG:
“😭😭😭”
I can just tell Giannis is excited Miami is his new home.
Your Hermes Agent can now adopt an animated pet: a small sprite that reacts to what the agent is doing (idle, running a tool, thinking, waiting, finishing, failing) in the GUI or TUI.
You have nearly 3000 pets to choose from via the petdex gallery, or you can submit your own.