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GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers (arstechnica.com)
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[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

You are so wrong I dont have simple words to describe it.

I'm a controls engineer who literally installs automation systems. AI is mostly useless in our industry, Claude barely scratches the surface of what we do. The coding is somewhat simple. The problem is how difficult the physical interaction is.

Having worked with Chinese controls people, they arent any better than the US engineers often they are significantly worse. No idea why. The guys from Mexico are way better from my experience.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

the Mexicans have their shit together. they're always great to work with, and they're competent. best factory I've ever been in was in Mexico. place was spotless.

[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Half of our contractors flew in from Mexico for my current project. Its like 70/30 with them for good/bad. Which is better than basically any installers I've worked with previously.

China in my experience is slavery painted over with the word automation. Any work I've done over there has an insane amount of obscurity to hide the slavery.