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Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
(techcrunch.com)
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Hmmm sounds like you have to just accept and invest in your training pool to ensure the long term health of your company. Once these guys are gone again, they won’t have anyone to turn to, to fix their mistakes.
Long term thinking? That's crazy talk! Line must go up now!
I work for a legacy manufacturing company, big name, you’d know it, but this kind of situation that happened to Ford is one of my biggest fears. I got the opportunity to be the youngest person in the room with guys with 20+ yoe and I got to learn from osmosis for years. Now I’m 10+ years myself, and not many of the old guys left and not a lot of young people either. So if they don’t invest in the talent pool, it’s going to sink our ship in ~15 years.
on the other hand, Ford clearly does not understand how to design or manufacture vehicles because China already does it better despite Ford's 100 year head start.
There is a lot of stupid shit in US automotive engineering that is only done for historic reasons...like why does every model need unique handles, switches, knobs, etc.
Yeah, you're fucked. In our current economic system it's basically impossible to think on these kind of time horizons.