The Screen is Dead: What Tech Bros Are Missing About Hardware

Engineering the Intelligent Enterprise · Mar 22, 2026 · 23m

Are we looking at the wrong screen?

In this episode, we step away from the endless chatbot hype to look at where AI is actually doing the heavy lifting: the physical world.

I share my candid experiences working between mechanical engineering and AI—from watching factory workers handle live explosives to training language models on empathy.

We break down the rise of Embodied AI, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, and why hardware without a "brain" is already obsolete.

Expect to learn:

* Why a great prompt means nothing without a physical product.

* The massive shift from rigid automation to…