@lukas_m_ziegler: why i'd learn robotics over AI engineering for the next 12-24 months: everyone is an AI engineer now... that's the whol…
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The author argues that learning robotics is more advantageous than AI engineering in the next 12-24 months due to market saturation in AI, with robotics offering unique opportunities for building a competitive moat.
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why i’d learn robotics over AI engineering for the next 12-24 months: everyone is an AI engineer now… that’s the whole problem you can’t build a moat out of what a subagent does at 3am for pennies robotics is the opposite: > the models already work, what’s missing is x.com/DeRonin_/statu…
Ronin (@DeRonin_): why i’d learn robotics over AI engineering for the next 12-24 months:
everyone is an AI engineer now… that’s the whole problem
you can’t build a moat out of what a subagent does at 3am for pennies
robotics is the opposite:
> the models already work, what’s missing is
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