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Yes! In the future, a whole car factory will have only one employee. His job: feed the dog. The dog’s: keep humans away from the machines. Just as a ship with
by motoboi 5y ago
Yes! In the future, a whole car factory will have only one employee. His job: feed the dog. The dog’s: keep humans away from the machines.
Just as a ship with dozens of people got replaced by 13: the complexity was encapsulated in simpler interfaces.
Diesel motors: just change this lever. Up is fast, down is slow. But it took a century to refine this absurdly complex device until this simple interface became possible.
I think the point here is: don’t build your own diesel motors. It’s unlikely you’ll beat a good model and your interface to it will probably be worst. Remember: people take years learning from their own mistakes to hide the complexity under simpler interfaces layers.
Unless your company IS building diesel motors.
- AllegedAlec 5y agoSo what happens to your simple encapsulated system when the diesel motor breaks down, or one of your hydraulic lines breaks? Does your simple encapsulated system them also say "we have no downtime, because we have a simple system"?
- cl3misch 5y agoI'm pretty sure that is the exact point the parent post is trying to make!
- motoboi 5y agoYou leave port with 10 replacements for every component of the encapsulated device. Or just a full replacement for it. Hidden complexity in the case of the diesel motor was made possible also because of know failure modes (how many years until the low hanging fruits all got solved, how many decades until the not so easy got too?) and standardization of its components (how many centuries just to understand and standardize the universal joint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_joint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_joint?).