I’ll admit I skimmed, but I’m skeptical of the idea that software is the magic key to getting manufacturing going strong in the USA again.<p>Instead we should be de-stigmatizing trade work and investing in developing manufacturing skill in our workforce. For instance, brother is a machinist who saves his employer a great deal of money fixing manufacturing machines, however this is a dying art held up by just a few people who love it and take pride in it.<p>Pride in good work through good communication between people is what is needed to make things run smoothly. Don’t agile it, or worse Amazon Iron Sensei it. C’mon, this is supposed to be the land of the free.
Out of curiosity, does anyone have a countercase for entities like Anduril? I understand being hesitant about building weapon systems, but what's the alternative? Do we want to rely on Boeing and Northrup until the next war? How do we avoid war while also not finding ourselves unprepared?<p>Despite hesitation about weaponry-building, I can't think of a viable alternative I prefer to upstarts like Anduril attempting to change the calculus of the next war.<p>Or do those on HN believe we have already seen the end of war? Will there be no more conflicts?