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2026-03-20 04:42:06 German Gamboa: -/-
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Over the last year it has been replaying in my head with regards to the shifts with agentic coding.
>The computers make it possible for robots to do many things, including much of the present
- manufacturing. Evidently computers will play a dominant role in robot operation, though one must
- be careful not to claim the standard von Neumann type of computer will be the sole control mechanism,
- rather probably the current neural net computers, fuzzy set logic, and variations will do much of the control.
- Setting aside the child’s view of a robot as a machine resembling a human, but rather thinking of it as a
- device for handling and controlling things in the material world, robots used in manufacturing do the
- following:
- A. Produce a better product under tighter control limits.
- B. Produce usually a cheaper product.
- C. Produce a different product.
- This last point needs careful emphasis.
- When we first passed from hand accounting to machine accounting we found it necessary, for
- economical reasons if no other, to somewhat alter the accounting system. Similarly, when we passed from
- strict hand fabrication to machine fabrication we passed from mainly screws and bolts to rivets and
- welding.
- It has rarely proved practical to produce exactly the same product by machines as we produced by
- hand.
- Indeed, one of the major items in the conversion from hand to machine production is the imaginative
- redesign of an equivalent product. Thus in thinking of mechanizing a large organization, it won’t work if
- you try to keep things in detail exactly the same, rather there must be a larger give-and-take if there is to be
- a significant success. You must get the essentials of the job in mind and then design the mechanization to do
- that job rather than trying to mechanize the current version—if you want a significant success in the long
- run.
- I need to stress this point; mechanization requires you produce an equivalent product, not identically the
- same one. Furthermore, in any design it is now essential to consider field maintenance since in the long run
- it often dominates all other costs. The more complex the designed system the more field maintenance must
- be central to the final design. Only when field maintenance is part of the original design can it be safely
- controlled; it is not wise to try to graft it on later. This applies to both mechanical things and to human
- organizations.
+ >manufacturing. Evidently computers will play a dominant role in robot operation, though one must
+ >be careful not to claim the standard von Neumann type of computer will be the sole control mechanism,
+ >rather probably the current neural net computers, fuzzy set logic, and variations will do much of the control.
+ >Setting aside the child’s view of a robot as a machine resembling a human, but rather thinking of it as a
+ >device for handling and controlling things in the material world, robots used in manufacturing do the
+ >following:
+ >A. Produce a better product under tighter control limits.
+ >B. Produce usually a cheaper product.
+ >C. Produce a different product.
+ >This last point needs careful emphasis.
+ >When we first passed from hand accounting to machine accounting we found it necessary, for
+ >economical reasons if no other, to somewhat alter the accounting system. Similarly, when we passed from
+ >strict hand fabrication to machine fabrication we passed from mainly screws and bolts to rivets and
+ >welding.
+ >It has rarely proved practical to produce exactly the same product by machines as we produced by
+ >hand.
+ >Indeed, one of the major items in the conversion from hand to machine production is the imaginative
+ >redesign of an equivalent product. Thus in thinking of mechanizing a large organization, it won’t work if
+ >you try to keep things in detail exactly the same, rather there must be a larger give-and-take if there is to be
+ >a significant success. You must get the essentials of the job in mind and then design the mechanization to do
+ >that job rather than trying to mechanize the current version—if you want a significant success in the long
+ >run.
+ >I need to stress this point; mechanization requires you produce an equivalent product, not identically the
+ >same one. Furthermore, in any design it is now essential to consider field maintenance since in the long run
+ >it often dominates all other costs. The more complex the designed system the more field maintenance must
+ >be central to the final design. Only when field maintenance is part of the original design can it be safely
+ >controlled; it is not wise to try to graft it on later. This applies to both mechanical things and to human
+ >organizations.
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