Why robotics and not AI engineering

Everyone in your timeline is an AI engineer now, and that is the whole problem

You cannot build a moat out of what a subagent does at 3am for pennies

Robotics is the opposite, for reasons that are structural rather than fashionable:

• the models already work, what is missing is someone who can put them in a body
• you cannot scrape the physical world, someone has to move a real machine to create the data
• there is no Stack Overflow answer for why your gripper keeps slipping
• a robot falling over is not a problem you can hand to a subagent
• nobody clones your robot over a weekend

AI engineering is crowded and robotics is empty