[falcor84]

I remember an old interview with Musk where he said that when he just got into manufacturing, he would try to automate all the things, but then found that it makes the assembly line overly rigid and difficult to improve, especially when they're still learning about a new assembly process. So he switched to only automating only the obvious parts at start, keeping humans in the loop for every step where it's not entirely clear how best to perform it, and then automate these other steps gradually as they learn.

So I assume that the idea is that humanoid robots could fully replace some of these temporary roles (or allow a single human to operate several robots), maintaining flexibility while a new production line is optimized, and then easily moved off to another.

[fennecbutt]

Pretty sure he was simply informed of all of that and he put himself on a pedestal as the CEO as he's done for countless interviews.

He seems to have a mostly surface level of understanding of what goes on at his companies, which is all a CEO needs. But it doesn't justify all the people I see idolising him as some sort of technical God. I heard he's a master of PoE, too ;)

[falcor84]

Yeah, I suppose that could be true, but I don't think it takes away from the reasoning process and the benefits of holding off on premature full automation.