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Is that surprising though? I doubt mech engs graduate with enough (any?) experience with manufacturability [1]. Seems the lesson learned here is that unlike so

Is that surprising though? I doubt mech engs graduate with enough (any?) experience with manufacturability [1]. Seems the lesson learned here is that unlike software, physical goods require an experienced up-front design that can't be haphazardly iterated on by new-grads to be fixed later. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_manufacturability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_manufacturability

chx 9y ago
Eh, most of the software skills you bring from university need plenty of tweaking before it is useful in a real world environment. The academic goals are severely misaligned with the real world programming usage.
jlarocco 9y ago
> Seems the lesson learned here is that unlike software, physical goods require an experienced up-front design that can't be haphazardly iterated on by new-grads to be fixed later. I'm not so sure software is any different. I think a large part of software's reputation for low quality and buggy software is due to this.