Ex-Tesla engineer: a month on the factory floor taught more than any elite school
yunta_tsai · x · 2026-10-18
Reacting to Yann LeCun's comment on the Roadster, author yuntatsai recounts a highly positioned Stanford professor who was theoretically brilliant but "couldn't turn numbers into coordinated atoms" — whose manufacturing knowledge came from The Economist and whose factory visits were VIP tours while real workers buzzed around.
The most impressive manufacturing engineers the author worked with weren't Ivy League graduates, yet they turn theoretical math into reality — "the real magicians." A month at Tesla, he says, taught him more than the most prestigious school could.
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