If coding agents can build robot programs and simulators, what's left for world model companies?
bigdata · x · 2026-10-31
A pointed industry question: if coding agents can assemble robot programs from reusable skills and even help build the simulators to test them, world model companies face a hard challenge — where does a learned model add value that a foundation model, existing robotics software, and a physics engine can't already provide?
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