Raghav AgrawalApr 4

RE: https://mastodon.social/@impactology/116346202875671550

Pipes & valves skids for pharma and food. or machining tools, conveyer belts for appliances. Basically making the tooling for factories. This is real engineering, process engineering

Orders of magnitude more complex than tooling for making software

If level of rigour for quality testing used for Clean-In-Place (CIP) piping skids of a biologics facility was used for AI software tooling, imagine the kind of software reliability we'd have instead of whatever the fuck today's genai tools spit out

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Real engineering deals with the laws of thermodynamics and material science. things that don't have bugs you can just patch later. Once something breaks or is contaminated you can't just be like we'll tackle this later.
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It's funny

There are industrial automation companies like abb robotics and fanuc with engineers and researchers doing much more rigorous research and engineering work with a much higher bar of safety than AI companies of silicon valley and none of their researchers do the cult like complexity theatre performance that researchers at these frontier model labs do

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There's a technique called orbital welding, where they make the bends of the pipe in a smooth continuous automated manner right from the start rather than joining another component at the end

You know why they do this in food industry? So that even minute food residue doesn't get stuck in the joints and crevices

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