Isha Ghodgaonkar

POV: you’re pitching us your agentic AI startup

Why isn’t there a city with the walkability of SF but the weather of San Diego 😭

so this is what it’s like to be an on call engineer

there’s a thin veil that few get to experience between the operator and investor worlds before they fall deeply into one category and view the other as alien for years at a time

I genuinely enjoy taking a Waymo like yeah I’ll take a 20% longer driverless ride with my music blasting no problem

today’s lesson from working at a robotics startup: when semiconductors get hot they forget how to semiconductor which means math is no longer math (robot arm below pictured after doing something insane that we did NOT train it to do)

new sign just dropped @FoundryRobotics

we are so very early in robotics. so so early

@dez_blanchfield ok boomer

@ishabytes nope.. missing railes.. whoever installed that is a moron..

“is this industry standard?” (our founding mechanical engineer in response to discovering our NAS being held up by exactly two screws)

@Fhajad good question tbh

@ishabytes Why is the 4U NAS at the top of the rack?

@0xJirachi a light!

@ishabytes what’s the led strip down the middle?

Things that only happen at a robotics startup: we slammed the end effector into the metal so hard the IP address of the robot changed (no seriously this took 2 hours to debug)

@JAdiaheno will do 🫡

@ishabytes Ahah thanks. Let us know if you ever need anything!

@JAdiaheno love vention!!

@ishabytes Hey @ishabytes 👋 I work for your extrusion manufacturer (the blue aluminum enclosure) Happy to see our product in the wild!

@Scav hahahah

I’m pretty sure I’ve had this happen during a deep tissue massage

@Abhindas1 @J_Bece18 @becjav23

@Abhindas1 a good question for our founding mechanical engineer @J_Bece18

@javiercorrea LMAO

@ishabytes hahah nothing like a robotic concussion

@NimaZeighami I wish I was joking

@ishabytes lol literally reads like a standup comedy bit

@theClarityDude @purushmani05 damn

@ishabytes A hard collision can reset the NIC or corrupt the static IP config on the controller. The fix is usually trivial, the 2 hours is all diagnosis. That's the real tax of physical systems: the search space includes the atom layer

@theClarityDude Thanks Claude

@utk7arsh I promise it actually happened @purushmani05

@ishabytes lol wth