The face the founding partner gives you in IC before killing the services deal you sourced 9 months ago because his wife told him to look into Turkey for a hair transplant.
Would welcome a manufacturing discussion on @LeverUpRT
Will fly to you. Will fly you to St Petersburg
You don’t even know how to roll earplugs
Had a @GoPro body cam and one as a Birds Eye cam optimizing changeovers today
We are not the same!
@espricewright
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a16z's Erin Price-Wright says factory technicians can now retool production lines with AI in 20 minutes, a job that used to take an outside integrator 3 months:
"Historically, if you're setting up a line with a lot of automation, you really need to be producing a lot of one single thing. That's how you get the cost down, and how you justify investing in a pretty bespoke manufacturing line."
"But what we're seeing across our portfolio is that manufacturing technicians themselves have the intuition, and now the software tools, to change the economics of producing low-volume, high-mix on the line."
"A manufacturing technician, not necessarily someone with a college degree or who's studied software engineering, can now use these tools to reprogram and reconfigure their lines on the fly, because they understand the manufacturing process."
"Instead of calling a systems integrator, which takes 3 months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to reconfigure a line, you can have a manufacturing engineer use Claude and do that in 20 minutes. That's been a real game changer."
@espricewright
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This isn’t even close to true
a16z's Erin Price-Wright says factory technicians can now retool production lines with AI in 20 minutes, a job that used to take an outside integrator 3 months:
"Historically, if you're setting up a line with a lot of automation, you really need to be producing a lot of one single thing. That's how you get the cost down, and how you justify investing in a pretty bespoke manufacturing line."
"But what we're seeing across our portfolio is that manufacturing technicians themselves have the intuition, and now the software tools, to change the economics of producing low-volume, high-mix on the line."
"A manufacturing technician, not necessarily someone with a college degree or who's studied software engineering, can now use these tools to reprogram and reconfigure their lines on the fly, because they understand the manufacturing process."
"Instead of calling a systems integrator, which takes 3 months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to reconfigure a line, you can have a manufacturing engineer use Claude and do that in 20 minutes. That's been a real game changer."
@espricewright
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If he dies, he dies
@ryanraysr
Answering “typical liberal BS question” whenever anyone asks me “how did I get to underwrite 7-950bps margin expansion after a 2 day plant tour”
I can promise this to the feed: No @McKinsey consultant taught him this
@PadraicMcC
Whatever product manager came up with the “seems like AI slop” button for LinkedIn deserves a raise
