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I build control systems: surgical robots for my ECE MSc at @McGill and @Mila_Quebec, and receivables control at Sutyr.

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@omkarships Software dying is like physical buildings dying.

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@quasicoh Without really good integrations to sim software with actually attunement to the robot, I do not think it is an ever easy task, without the teams of engineers behind it.

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@StripeDev This is great for finance tooling. Being able to join invoices with your own customer data in SQL makes month-end checks much simpler.

Will it include invoice status changes, like voids and uncollectible?

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@samongaro_ IBM had it right in 1979: “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”

AI makes building cheap. Someone still has to be accountable when it breaks. That’s the moat. Oh and trust at scale AI can never.

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@shiri_shh One big difference: in 2010 a bug crashed your app.

In robotics a bug moves something in the real world. That’s why control and safety are the skills worth learning first. Or sim-to-real test & you are good to go

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@Mascobot And their own control stack. Hardware without good control is an expensive paperweight.

Sim-to-real with RL is where it gets fun, and NVIDIA’s open world models (Cosmos) make it cheap to start.

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@michellelsun @lennysan A used Lenovo ThinkCentre mini pc, often under $200 refurbished. Put Ubuntu Server on it and it’s an always-on homelab for overnight code sessions & test runs. Quieter and sturdier than a Pi once the workload gets real.

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@Dhruvam987 I'd love to

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@boardyai I build robots for a living. Can confirm, they’ve learned LinkedIn voice too.

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@omkarships Service as long of a differentiated moat & signal but still quality in its presentation & delivers is still a respectable business.

Just put your greatest effort into it.

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4yrs to some yes, but to others, I still feel a valuable education at right price, structure, and community goes a long way than anything pure AI.

You don't know what you don't know is an understatement coming from only a high school education in my perspective. Especially anything outside the fold of tech majors.

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@eliana_jordan I think X's new subscription stack brings back cursor into the fold of relevant existence with grok

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The best days in the lab are the ones where the data proves me wrong.

Turns out that’s true outside the lab too.

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Learning on the value of webhooks shows you how much power you can yield in the real-world software in real-time.

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@claudeai Exciting, time to tinker..

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Optimistic outcomes follows optimistic people and vice versa.

[Dan Martell @danmartell]

decide you've won already... then work backwards.

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Start hard stuff now.

[Solopreneur Dad @JonBuildsHQ]

tell your 18-year-old self something in 4 words

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Making it happen despite the odds takes a leap of faith that is sure to repay if you never stop iterating.

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@dom_gag_96 Here for a short while.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you don't wake up excited and go to bed tired, drop everything and think of what your future will look like if you keep repeating the same day for the rest of your life. Sit with that discomfort until a new direction appears.