Raw LLM Responses

Another industry automation guy here (software side). I've personally written code that took me less than a day to complete, cost the company about a 100k in investments for new factory floor lifts and conveyor belts, and got about six guys out of a job. One Middle management guy who looked at the data and pulled the trigger on what to order, a shift manager to oversee the guys, and four guys employed fulltime in the warehouse. One automated lift, conveyor belt and an automated ordering system later, no new jobs were created. ​ The only real hurdle most factories have, is that a total overhaul for automation almost certainly would shut down the entire facility for weeks, if not months. This is a death blow to most companies, and as far as I see, the only real reason why many factory workers still cling to a job. There's barely a thing humans can do better or faster anymore, but often automating the other stuff around that one task becomes Herculean in nature when you have to do it in sections without disrupting production. Once old factories die or new ones are built when expanding, the freedom to ignore manual labor and make the initial investment towards fully automated systems is almost always worth the cost.