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Yes. Also, it's a fairly common trope that if you want to pilot a mech suit, you need to be someone like Tony Stark. He's a tinkerer and an expert. What he does
by ekidd 9mo ago
Yes. Also, it's a fairly common trope that if you want to pilot a mech suit, you need to be someone like Tony Stark. He's a tinkerer and an expert. What he does is not a commodity. And when he loses his suit and access to his money? His big plot arc is that he is Iron Man. He built it in a cave out of a box of scraps, etc.
There are other fictional variants: the giant mech with the enormous support team, or Heinlein's "mobile infantry." And virtually every variantion on the Heinlein trope has a scene of drop commandos doing extensive pre-drop checks on their armor.
The actual reality is it isn't too had for a competent engineer to pair with Claude Code, if they're willing to read the diffs. But if you try to increase the ratio of agents to humans, dealing with their current limitations quickly starts to feel like you need to be Tony Stark.
- bitwize 9mo agoYou don't need to be Tony Stark. But, "if you're nothing without the suit then you don't deserve it."
- hedgedoops2 9mo agoFor me the idea of "people piloting mech suits" brings up lost kids, like Shinji from nge.
- bitwize 9mo agoFunny, because I was thinking of Evangelion's predecessor, Gunbuster, in which cadets are shown undergoing grueling physical training both in and out of their mechs to prepare for space combat.