Sahil Patel

imagine reindustrializing from here

@zachglabman Complexity is relative, some elements require skill but ops are just bloated in most cases. Quoting leaves scars, but extra salaries for rote work kill revenue per employee quicker than misquotes

I’d assume this applies to operationally complex businesses with limited access to working capital in general

precision machining rollup works as a financial product but not as an industrial one buying 12 shops gets you 12 shops worth of capacity on one cap table. bottleneck is often not capacity but capability / productivity consolidation of capacity is not consolidation of capability

@JacobZietek open invite to come to some factories with your boy :)

Robotics has spent decades optimizing for research. Deployment requires a completely different kind of person: operators, industrialists, and outsiders the field typically ignores. There's a wave of people who want to build in robotics. The field doesn't know what to do with them. New essay, Robotics Needs Fewer Roboticists* below 👇

@zachglabman or come work at conduit and eat PLC dinner 🤤

met a lot of hardware, manufacturing, distribution and integration companies in the last year If you want a job forever go learn to program PLCs

My fat ass Machine fault

@zachglabman @Tall__Paul__

buddy of mine looking for 5 axis precision machining and anodizing for aerospace parts is everyone still booked out or do people have 5 axis capacity

Customer installed a TV for Conduit OS in the middle of their factory… (I would show the pic he sent / our software but miss me with the ITAR violations)

@itsdannypereira The golden triangle, she calls

The future of American Manufacturing lives in the Midwest and The South

@zachglabman @itsdannypereira Shoutout Oseas, best cuts in the 313

@itsdannypereira fresh cut @paymetheus

New robot sundays 🫡🦾

the national debt may double when the DoD realizes they need to hire AI researchers and buy GPUs

Ops approval at 9 am. Onsite at 3 pm IT concerns assuaged by 4 pm. First PLC data at 5 pm. Report delivered next day at 11 am. It’s what we do @deployconduit

@beffjezos Cancer next 👀

full self-driving is here full self-coding is here we live in the best of times

@DaveShapi Bitter lessening

The problem with trying to "skate to where the puck will be" in AI and business right now is that the puck you are trying to intercept does not really exist yet. Here's an example. For years, I've had businesses asking me "how do I deploy agents" (mind you this was as far back as 2023 and 2024) The honest answer was "if you're not even using chatbots, you sure as hell aren't ready for agents" But even today, business leaders seem to expect off-the-shell software that you can just buy, install, and it will fix everything. So I started telling them "promote from within, find the people in your organization who are building this stuff at home, and give them all the resources they need to go hog wild on it" Because these are the only people with the velocity to get it. But of course the risk tolerance for any for-profit business is very different. No Fortune 500 company is going to use OpenClaw or Moltbook any time soon. The CFO looks at that and says "not a snowball's chance in hell". Chief legal counsel just laughs hysterically. Meanwhile your cybersecurity chief is issuing policies to ban execution and lock down the shadow-IT that is on the rise. We live in 2 very, very, very different worlds right now. The good news is that we can all see what's coming down the pipeline here on twitter. That means business leaders have time to wrap their heads around it. The bad news is that we have to wait longer.

Reviewing PRs after a hardware day

@danielmitchell Lehman brothers r proudly middlemen

if your industry needs a “broker” it’s broken

AGI is here - Paymetheus Feb 8 2026

Under served industry ……. Proprietary data sets ……………………… The best engineers realize the doors on which we knock

@iruletheworldmo They wanted to test agents swarms and no one would use sonnet

so they’ve released a faster version of opus that’s 3x the cost. it launched with sonnet context length. initially named sonnet. but they wouldn’t serve you up a sonnet in sheep’s clothing right? because…they’re the good guys. we know this. because they say it all the time.

@zachglabman @fishPointer Birds - flying death machines

@fishPointer these need like 10 more mph then I’ll get it

ok i kinda get it now