William I. Gibbs IV (Will)

building the Factory Factory 🏭🏭🏭 | former SpaceX senior engineer (Starlink Tooling & Automation) | 3X startup founder industrial/manufacturing

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@SkinnyfatTony All robots go to heaven (where there are no singularities)

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@CrystalEBentley 🙌

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@E_Bruxxx Building the full-stack IDE for entire physical factories (so manufacturers can build more, better, and faster!)

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@RobertJohns The highest value bit is one that's in service of an atom!

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@Robotbeat just think about all the arbitrage opportunities across 11 whole dimensions though!

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@stefanobernardi @reindsummit I’m down - working before flight later. Are you downtown? Will DM

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@joshu I’m nearby - would grab coffee with you after a 1:00 team call!

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@aphysicist Hell yes! Need any volunteers to help uh, install/field test that Galleon? (redeye flight - can't check in to hotel yet - hands are idle - ready to pre-industrialize)

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@mattfreed Flying in from Seattle tonight! Hope to run into you again this week!

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@emm0sh @Xaraphim Extra bonus super plus 5000 technique: add tab & slot (with corner reliefs, natch) to assist assembly and resist the twist!

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Pretty neat! Not buildable from this artifact alone (struts/shocks to nowhere, floating steering rack, who knows what interior geometry of anything looks like…), and would annoy an actual drawing checker (crossed leaders, ambiguous leader landings…) but that’s all fixable, right? Would love to try it!

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@TsT3v0 Sure, I’ll give you… 1-2% less true, as measured by commercially-deployable technology actually being used in manufacturing facilities today (ie not research and one-off demo/experiments). Digital Twins are woefully difficult to keep accurate at the whole-facility level.

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PSA/rant on “Digital Twin” in manufacturing: 15 years of Industry 4.0 marketing sold DT as a magic wand for factory design and optimization. Now it's a dirty word. Why? Factories evolve faster (and weirder) than twins can be [re-]authored. They decay into “dashboards with extra dimensions”.

CARVE-OUT: the DT paradigm works fine for monitoring conditions of serialized objects like products or standalone systems in the field. But that’s just a 3D veneer on SCADA/Observability, right?

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@emm0sh What!? end of times activities right there. prepping my bunker now

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@nunzi46 hey your 2026-2027 conference schedule just set itself, then! 😉

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@emm0sh If you can’t live inside The Part, is it even The Part? Get with Trio Labs and do a micro-scale version next!

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Normalize quantifying American data center capacity in units of horsepower instead of soulless, anodyne SI watts.

1.341 MILLION HORSEPOWER just feels more powerful than 1 puny little ‘GW’

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@syphono4 This looks awesome! I want to play it!

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@kapilansh_twt Standard Change-Makers, Inc. (est 1955)

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@growing_daniel my cash wolf rn