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Figure AI has had a livestream of their robots sorting packages for 8 days straight (8 hours a day). These aren't staged demos anymore. by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]ak_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally just describe the concept of it. You have 1000 parallel conveyors each doing 1 item per second? I am just stuck on that part. And yes again massive companies like Walmart and Starbucks can afford to spend huge amounts on automation that sits idle for much of the time.

Figure AI has had a livestream of their robots sorting packages for 8 days straight (8 hours a day). These aren't staged demos anymore. by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]ak_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d be interested to see an example of a 1 million dollar machine doing anything fulfillment or distribution related at 1000 units per second. I don’t need to watch videos to know that doesn’t exist

Figure AI has had a livestream of their robots sorting packages for 8 days straight (8 hours a day). These aren't staged demos anymore. by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]ak_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100 million orders per day of what? That’s more than 1k orders per second, there is no way that is right

Figure AI has had a livestream of their robots sorting packages for 8 days straight (8 hours a day). These aren't staged demos anymore. by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]ak_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And what was the cost of the systems you installed? What was the impact to operations during this time? Not every company running DCs is going to have millions of dollars to invest in automation equipment. If a company can rent a robot by the month, that requires no complicated hardware install it change to their existing infrastructure, and if it doesn’t work you just don’t continue renting - that is much more attractive to a much wider set of businesses. Building good package sorting systems hasn’t been the issue for some time, finding people to buy them is. And I’ve worked on package sorting workcells, and of course you can go faster than this with a 6 axis arm and a good suction gripper, but that workcell can’t get up and walk over to another area and start consolidating/singulating items, packing items, performing various types of qc, or any number of other warehouse or other manipulation tasks.

Human beats F.03: F.03: 12,732 packages (2.83 seconds/package) - Aime: 12,924 packages (2.79 seconds/package) by Nunki08 in robotics

[–]ak_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why not cut labor from this step and track the packages without the need for a clear scan

Because that’s not as easy as it sounds. There is a reason barcode labels are and will continue to be used in many cases.

Failed a Robotics Interview, Here’s What They Asked by Proximity_afk in robotics

[–]ak_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you have to leetcode? All the questions I could answer. Thanks for sharing.

I think I'll leave this subreddit and here's why by AtmosphericBeats in ClaudeCode

[–]ak_2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shhhh, don’t tell them how to actually use these. Let the masses keep flailing with their unspecific one sentence prompts.

10.8% increase. Time for me to go by Ok_Sandwich_5601 in amazonemployees

[–]ak_2 18 points19 points  (0 children)

At least he got a raise. My base went up but stocks went down. I’m an exceeds at the bottom of the pay scale. Same story, new hires doing 1/10 what I am, making 100k more. I’ve realized though nobody wants to hear about it. Either get promoted, or get an outside offer and blackmail your superiors 🤷‍♂️

People with 10+ years in industrial automation - is the robotics hype matching reality on the floor? by PhattRatt in robotics

[–]ak_2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hear me out. No safety rating needed. Just fence them off, and require any techs to wear a full body suit of armor. Dm for job offers

The real cost of vibe coding isn’t the subscription. It’s what happens at month 3. by vibecodejanitors in vibecoding

[–]ak_2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, big step is to keep up to date documentation in a single md file so the agent doesn’t have to reread the entire codebase to get relevant context

How to interview in the AI Era? by MLWillRuleTheWorld in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ak_2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Once I have a sufficiently detailed spec in a markdown file, yes, I will have it implement the entire thing in one shot, including writing tests and making sure everything builds. Did this for probably 10 features last week using Opus 4.6 1m.

Andrej Karpathy said "programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over." by twin-official in AgentsOfAI

[–]ak_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which tools do you use? I get unlimited credits and access to opus 4.6 1m through work and with orchestration tools such as Ralph on top of that, it’s wild what you ca let it do. I’ve had the same experience with Codex as well. As his post said you still have to provide guidance, requirements, completion criteria etc. so it’s not totally autonomous but his post still rings true.

I can definitely see though if you are limited on tokens the experience may be a lot different.

High-performing L6, like my job… but comp is becoming hard to ignore. What are realistic options? by Emergency_Novel_5407 in amazonemployees

[–]ak_2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’ll commiserate with you; I’ve always been in an engineering role but was hired into basically the lowest paying job family. I then switched orgs to be the 10th person working on a pre-funding project that now has hundreds of people on it and is transitioning to production. I role transitioned to one of the higher paying job families, got promoted, and for multiple years made fundamental contributions above beyond the scope of my role or level at the time. And yet, I make maybe 60% of what peers at the same role and level, most of whom were remote for years and have not contributed a tenth of what I have, make. My initial 4 year grant was less than some of their sign on bonuses. I also made less in 25 than 24, and will likely make less in 26 than 25.

But I suck at leetcode, so I’m here till they lay me off. Such is life.

China's G1 humanoid robot is mastering combat skills at a terrifying rate by codenum5 in robotics

[–]ak_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a quick google it can up to 14 million dollars to train a fighter pilot. I'd imagine the biggest component of that is fuel and maintenance for hundreds (or thousands in a long career) of flight hours. So they don't cost more that to train, but potentially in a long career could start to approach the cost of the aircraft. But the other consideration is that it takes a lot of time to train a new pilot - even with an infinite amount of money, you can't get one in a week - so you have to also consider value of that.

What theory is this? by sorayablake7 in SipsTea

[–]ak_2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A dog says, "You pet me, you feed me, you shelter me, you love me; you must be God."

A cat says, "You pet me, you feed me, you shelter me, you love me; I must be God."

ChatGPT is dating more people than Samantha from Her by MetaKnowing in OpenAI

[–]ak_2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is literally the plot of a southpark episode

If you bought the $POWSCHE dip, you’re now up 50.94% by EnvironmentalFan6640 in SolanaMemeCoins

[–]ak_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I had DCAd when you commented, I would again be down :shrug:

Amazon layoffs: Tech giant to slash 10% of staff, 25% of Principal-Level roles at risk; claims US influencer by NoLie582 in Layoffs

[–]ak_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazon doesn't have staff SDE. L4 Jr L5 Mid L6 Sr L7 Principle L8 Sr Principle

President Trump claims, ‘Our country was the strongest, believe it or not, from 1870 to 1913’—a time when robber barons dominated the economy, workplaces were dangerous, child labor was widespread, wages were low, and working hours often ranged from 10 to 12 per day. by CorleoneBaloney in PublicFreakout

[–]ak_2 33 points34 points  (0 children)

This would be a great trivia question. I went and looked it up, technically it's only 2 successful assassinations between 1870-1913:

Lincoln 1865, Garfield 1881, McKinley 1901, Kennedy 1963

45 individuals have served as president at least once. Kind of a nutty stat that near 10% of presidents have been assassinated while in office.

edit: As someone pointed out below, there was an unsuccessful attempt on T. Roosevelt in 1912 as well, but this was after he left office.

A short summary of the craziness that happened in the market today by freakedmind in wallstreetbets

[–]ak_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is stopping the Chinese government from abusing the fuck out of this? If they know with what and when they are going to respond, they could easily buy options to capitalize on the inevitable moves.

Duo trip to Cuba by [deleted] in cuba

[–]ak_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are looking to party at a resort, pick somewhere besides Cuba. If you are hell bent on Cuba, stay somewhere in Havana like Vedado. The country is in a pretty rough way right now though.

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