No need for the AR goggles, just hire day labor to work for a skilled tradesman as a labor multiplier, or try the old fashioned "here's a mobile phone do what your boss says"
In the trades themselves, we've been doing this for centuries... have a master mason supervise the journeyman masons supervising the manual day labor. AI will not be able to compete with experienced personnel. In that field they've already dumbed down the entry level requirement to "pick up a brick and move it there" and it can't go much lower.
On the other hand, if I were manufacturing survey equipment I'd worry about AR goggles as the competition.
As long as we have human using computers, we'll have more skill humans helping the humans.
We were told that inventing web search engines and giving kids ipads would completely eliminate IT. We see how that turned out LOL.
From a financial standpoint, as long as the top 1% of "IT skills" population can make the other 99% of the company more than 1% more profitable, they'll never get fired, well, completely anyway. At big companies its a pretty low bar to surpass, and small companies can contract with MSPs.
From a cultural / psychology standpoint, its pretty deeply ingrained that some folks are dumb/lazy/ignorant and thats OK, some folks have intense learned helplessness as a character trait, and some folks get really excited about forcing others to "do their work for them" WRT primate dominance. We as a culture will never avoid the appeal of BYOD, even with a miracle of 100% BYOD in IT, we as a culture would STILL hire cloud admins just so the job can be delegated if nothing else.
The pay in IT in most of the country is ... microscopic compared to software dev. New grads or people with nothing but an A+ are not getting new Stanford grad software dev salaries, its more like $22 to $25/hr in most of the country for a new help desk jockey. And it's pretty boring work for 99% of the employees 99% of the time. However, if chatgpt can fizzbuzz better than humans, doing "IT stuff" beats starvation for us computer people.
Its also worth pointing out that AI as a tool is just biased single answer web search. Web search more or less resulted in more employment. Seems likely this variation on the theme will result in more employment.
Like many security policies, it merely has to be harder, not impossible.
There is an interesting decoding aspect where a "M" can never follow a "V" in a roman numeral representation. So its technically very easy to turn a written capital V into a written capital M but its not actually useful in practice.
Also there are word/letter spacing issues where technically one could remove "III" from the end of a numeral but it would probably result in typographically or graphic arts weird looking spacing.
Industrially, no. You're asking for an automotive ignition without a coil, pretty much not done.
Various logic chopping options exist to be technically correct. If you define a pulse as not being "AC" because its not a constant waveform or its not wall outlet 50 hz or 60 hz, then sorta kinda thats an engine ignition coil. If you define a tesla coil as not being AC because its a resonant ckt with a quarter wave antenna colocated, then sorta kinda sure no AC.
The proper way to select linear vs switched is really a flow chart of some applications require super low analog noise or low quiescent current and cannot tolerate a switcher solution. The next step is a complete system analysis including power/battery budget AND thermal for both solutions then pick the overall system level winner. No point in spending dollars of switcher components to save fractions of a penny of battery energy.
Another interesting point is its "generally" easier to buy/build constant current linear sources than constant current switching sources. Plenty of sensor applications where you want to mostly just limit to 4-20 mA or similar.
Final point to make is "generally" with massive hand waving and isolated exceptions, linear sources are harder to destroy via inductive loads and oscillating loads and ESD / EMI impacts.
> The proper way to select linear vs switched is really a flow chart of some applications require super low analog noise or low quiescent current and cannot tolerate a switcher solution.
Switching pre-regulators followed by a high PSRR LDO with some filtering can work here
As someone that works with low noise systems but on the firmware/software side, is it possible to design a low noise power supply with a switcher, without some kind of linear stage (like a final LDO regulator)? The hardware engineers are good, but I'd like to understand this a bit myself.
In principle yes, in practice it's rarely worth the cost and complexity.
If you're careful about the converter design (keep the high-current loops extremely short, use counter-rotating loops to tightly confine magnetic field within those short loops, use a soft-switching topology to reduce EMI and sharp edges at the switch node, switch quickly or use multiple parallel converters at different phase offsets to reduce magnitude of current ripple), you can get decently low noise. There's a good Jim Williams app note about this.[0]
But it's almost never worth it to do this, since there's LDOs with two or three orders of magnitude better noise voltage. There's a time and a place for a really low noise converter; usually EMI constrained galvanically isolated converters like medical supplies or scientific instruments need them and aren't too sensitive to the cost or development effort. But even then, you'll often find LDOs cascaded on the outputs just afterward, since a good LDO can add another two orders of magnitude of ripple rejection in the switching frequency band.
"There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy" Yes that is indeed Reddit in a nutshell. May not want Reddit content in your next ChatGPT model, so not necessarily a bad thing.
In the trades themselves, we've been doing this for centuries... have a master mason supervise the journeyman masons supervising the manual day labor. AI will not be able to compete with experienced personnel. In that field they've already dumbed down the entry level requirement to "pick up a brick and move it there" and it can't go much lower.
On the other hand, if I were manufacturing survey equipment I'd worry about AR goggles as the competition.