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> “Ironically, [Woz’s] design was so minimized that normal mere mortals couldn’t figure it out. To go to production, we had to have technicians testing the thin
by mch82 7y ago
> “Ironically, [Woz’s] design was so minimized that normal mere mortals couldn’t figure it out. To go to production, we had to have technicians testing the things so they could make sense of it. If any one part failed, the whole thing would come to its knees. And since Jobs didn’t really understand it and didn’t want us to know that he hadn’t done it, we ended up having to redesign it before it could be shipped.”
I encountered this kind of thing at an Autodesk event a couple years back. AI was generating bridge designs the civil engineers didn’t understand. So, Autodesk had to dial down the AI until the designs could be evaluated by enough people to get a building permit.
Edit: quote is from the article & about Woz’s design