The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
In 2023, Raytheon’s president revealed that restarting Stinger missile production required bringing back engineers in their 70s to educate younger workers on using outdated paper schematics. Test equipment had been unused for years, and the nose cone was still manually attached, mirroring production methods from forty years prior.
techtrenches.dev
8 min
8h ago
The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
In 2023, Raytheon’s president revealed that restarting Stinger missile production required bringing back engineers in their 70s to educate younger workers on using outdated paper schematics. Test equipment had been unused for years, and the nose cone was still manually attached, mirroring production methods from forty years prior.
techtrenches.dev
8 min
8h ago
The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
In 2023, Raytheon’s president revealed that restarting Stinger missile production required bringing back engineers in their 70s to educate younger workers on using outdated paper schematics. Test equipment had been unused for years, and the nose cone was still manually attached, mirroring production methods from forty years prior.
techtrenches.dev
8 min
8h ago
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