I Let Claude Land A Rocket

Can AI write the code to land a rocket in Kerbal Space Program? I gave Otto one evening to build a Falcon 9-style rocket, write a kOS autopilot, and bring the booster home. In 2019, I spent two weeks of evenings on my own rocket-landing code. Seven years later, I came back with an AI coding agent that could write scripts and read flight logs, but never see the game. My part was to press launch and watch what happened. This video follows four milestones from a longer series of test flights, using the actual code, gameplay, and telemetry. From a landing burn that starts far too early to corrections for air resistance, steering, and drift, each flight gives us something new to understand. Otto writes the autopilot between flights. The script controls the rocket during flight. The two-week and 2-hour-12-minute projects used different rockets and achieved different landing accuracy. #KerbalSpaceProgram #AI #RocketLanding #KSP #ClaudeAI #AICoding #kOS 0:00 The challenge 0:30 Project background 1:52 The burn out 2:42 Introducing Otto 3:35 Flight one and analysis 5:45 Iterating the logic 6:30 Refining the target 7:38 Thruster calibration 8:27 Final landing 9:32 Conclusion