Henry Ford designed the assembly line because he understood cars inside out. The speaker warns that automating processes without deep domain knowledge backfires. You need to know how the pieces fit together before you try to speed them up.
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Henry Ford. Remember that guy? What do you get famous for? Assembly line, right? Assembly line is a big piece of what he did. Certainly did multiple things. What did the assembly line do? It put together the car quicker. If the assembly line broke, does he know what to do? He built a car. So if the tire is missing, he's like, oh shit, the tire didn't get on at this state somewhere. That's what— but he knows how to build a car already. And then he made a system to build the car quicker. He knows how to put the whole thing together. He did that. The assembly line shortened that process. And so it's really hard for me to automate stuff that you don't when you have nothing. So some people want it and that's a mistake I made early on. I was like, oh, this will work for everyone. Nah, you don't know how the things work. Like some breaks, maybe he doesn't know how every piece of it works, but I bet he knows what section the tires get put on in. He goes, hey, something broke over here. Can we fix it?