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Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs

https://www.ddmckinnon.com/2026/06/09/vibe-coding-my-way-to-a-healthy-family-introducing-gamow-labs/
68•dmckinno•4h ago

Comments

ungreased0675•3h ago
I’m skeptical that general purpose LLMs are a good fit for a very specialized medical analysis task. Something trained specifically for the task would be the path I’d explore.
boxed•2h ago
General models are very cheap to get started with though. So even if they are less than ideal, you can use them to get a company going and then make something more efficient.
dools•1h ago
Does it say anywhere that he’s using general purpose models for the analysis? Fine tuning open weight models is generally available for pretty minimal cost, I’d say his reference to vibe coding is how he is building the software not how the software functions.
epsteingpt•3h ago
This is a heartbreaking story and you can't imagine a more motivated founder.

Godspeed.

LoganDark•1h ago
Huh.

> It was clear that something about my approach was interesting.

But no approach. Not even a hint.

I do hope the approach pans out. I do understand it must be a trade secret in order for you to have a business, but I'm still a little underwhelmed.

andai•1h ago
llm("opus", genome)
tedesign•1h ago
This is extremely disturbing.
PierceJoy•1h ago
In what way?
senectus1•44m ago
lots of different ways, the loss of a child the potential loss of two children, the powerlessness and despair the parents would have been feeling... turning to AI which might have a positive outcome but many of us are not very trusting of the tool.

Its a sad story. I wish them well, I hope this is one of those scenarios that AI works exactly as desired.

vasco•47m ago
Man tries to find way to improve situation that gave him needless distress surrounding the death of his newborn.

Internet reply: this is extremely disturbing

aaronphilip03•46m ago
You'll are extremely strong. Rooting for you'll!
fabbbbb•37m ago
It reads like a specific genome would lead to deterministic outcomes. It does not. Life is messy.

Most Down Syndrome people have happy lives, some can even leave alone and have an independent daily live.

Life expectancy is up to 60 years.

Yet in Iceland „Democratization“ of genetic diagnosis lead to basically 0% Down Syndrome kids.

Where does this stop? What with someone of a genetic indication of aggressive cancer- life expectancy 55? Abort?

The same (detectable) genetic mutation leads to vastly different lives.

jdw64•34m ago
This is such a sad story. What would it feel like to have a child? I'll probably never experience it in my lifetime. I've never been through that, but when my sibling died of cancer, I couldn't do anything for nearly a year. I imagine it's a similar feeling. I wish you all the best in everything you do from now on.
data_maan•21m ago
Aside from the sad life events, little information is shares about his "system", the thing HN is interested in.

Is this more than a harness built on top of a SOTA commercial LLM?

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327•plasma•10h ago•115 comments

Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs

https://www.ddmckinnon.com/2026/06/09/vibe-coding-my-way-to-a-healthy-family-introducing-gamow-labs/
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