MIT's John Hart on AI in manufacturing: winners will embrace the grind
AnneliesGamble · x · 2026-11-05
Investor Annelies Gamble published a conversation with MIT professor John Hart, "The Future of 'New' Manufacturing," on AI's role in manufacturing and what rebuilding US industrial capability will take.
- Core thesis: every manufactured object is the result of materials, machinery, and people; the winning founders and investors will "lean into the grind" — find the most consequential levers and rebuild the industrial base.
- Commenters cite Anduril's "the grind that'll win" as the most cogent framing of AI + the physical world, and praise Gamble as one of the few covering the full ecosystem beyond surface hype.
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