AI Agentic Engineering - Claude Code

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champshire

Quote from: Here's Johnny! on Today at 05:11 AMI am wondering how you can protect your company data from being shared with these systems?

Agree, this is a concern for me as well. I can think of a macro that I would like to revisit and clean up that I wrote 10 years ago. It's used everyday however, so it's not something that we can really do without. I am hesitant to upload it to an AI to clean it up, but I feel that it should be done at some point. One of those things, you obviously learn more as time goes on, and I could do it better now. I do not want our competition to benefit from my work, however, and I am sure that management would agree.
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YoDoug

When it comes to machining, no matter how smart you think you are, you are not doing anything that other shops or other people haven't thought of. Truthfully, it is the experience in what you do that is valuable because it saves time and makes more money. that is why machining is a skilled trade. It takes time to learn a skill. The weeks or months of production that allows you to fine tune a process to be more competitive. Cutting tool combinations for better chip control and tool life. That is the kind of stuff I try not to share, you want your competitors to have to spend the same time and effort you did to make your success. Things that are general knowledge, AI already knows. For things like macros, AI will help you and probably save time and even potentially make a better macro. If you spend the time doing it, the AI may be learning from it and be able to reproduce similar results for someone else. However, how do you know if the AI is giving you info from what it learned from someone else before you?

IMO, AI is not going away. AI grows 10x to 100x smarter with every major model release. Assume your competition is using it already. Our strategy here is use AI in every way we can to make us more productive and give us every advantage we can get to gain market share and grow faster than our competition.
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Zoffen

Quote from: YoDoug on Today at 06:42 AMWhen it comes to machining, no matter how smart you think you are, you are not doing anything that other shops or other people haven't thought of. Truthfully, it is the experience in what you do that is valuable because it saves time and makes more money. that is why machining is a skilled trade. It takes time to learn a skill. The weeks or months of production that allows you to fine tune a process to be more competitive. Cutting tool combinations for better chip control and tool life. That is the kind of stuff I try not to share, you want your competitors to have to spend the same time and effort you did to make your success. Things that are general knowledge, AI already knows. For things like macros, AI will help you and probably save time and even potentially make a better macro. If you spend the time doing it, the AI may be learning from it and be able to reproduce similar results for someone else. However, how do you know if the AI is giving you info from what it learned from someone else before you?

IMO, AI is not going away. AI grows 10x to 100x smarter with every major model release. Assume your competition is using it already. Our strategy here is use AI in every way we can to make us more productive and give us every advantage we can get to gain market share and grow faster than our competition.

I agree 100% with this. I am trying to incorporate it as much as possible into every aspect of the biz. Being a 1 man band this is a total gamechanger for small teams to outcompete larger less agile firms. Game on.
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Here's Johnny!

Quote from: YoDoug on Today at 06:42 AMIMO, AI is not going away.

I absolutely agree, that is why I am using it when needed and want to stay up to date. You and Zoffen posted some great examples of how it can really help.



YoDoug

I saw this in a Youtube video this weekend and I think it is a very accurate forecast of where we will be in 10 years. If you are 10 years or less from retirement and you can weather a big hit to your 401K, probably not as much of a worry. Otherwise, learn to use AI better than everyone else. Stay up on current tools, trends, and tech.

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Zoffen

What if I'm an owner and AI operator? Do I get extra monies?
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champshire

As I feel like I am already behind the trends, is there anything I can read or watch to better enhance my AI skills?

I also asked the head guy in charge here what our AI policy was and if I could use it. He said he didn't have a problem with it, but we should probably look into some sort of policy.