Applied AI practitioner rediscovers industrial engineering: find the bottleneck first
brandon_galang · x · 2026-10-19
Developer brandongalang shares that the deeper he goes into applied AI, the more he leans on fundamentals he ignored in undergrad — industrial engineering, focused on optimizing complex systems and finding "where's the bottleneck / where's the ACTUAL problem." He strongly recommends The Phoenix Project, which teaches these principles through narrative.
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