Why digital twins are bullshit: field data breaks at the hands of maintenance techs
natesiggard · x · 2026-10-19
emm0sh argues digital twins are bullshit because field reality corrupts the data: a hungover maintenance tech skips three pages of paperwork and swaps in a belt with a slightly different part number, and corporate never finds out. natesiggard adds this is a critical lesson for anyone building agentic systems for real-world physical systems.
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