Full Width [alt+shift+f] Shortcuts [alt+shift+k]
Sign Up [alt+shift+s] Log In [alt+shift+l]
85

The Mythical Non-Roboticist

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
14th Mar 2024

Stay updated

Get a weekly newsletter with the top 5 articles worth reading every week.

More from General Robots

Vibe-Cadding

It turns out that current models are pretty good at writing code to generate cad (3D objects).

6th Jul 2026 • 1 votes
RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins!

RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an external tool, which disqualified them) and unlocking a padlock 25% faster than PI’s demonstration.

6th Apr 2026 • 1 votes
RobotEra Snatches Silver in Sock Inversion

New Silver Medal!

13th Mar 2026 • 1 votes
Physical Intelligence Sweeps Humanoid Olympics

More coming soon

5th Jan 2026 • 1 votes
Congrats to Sunday Robotics for winning the Bronze Medal for Rolling Matched Socks

The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition

16th Dec 2025 • 1 votes

More in programming

We solved SQLite's single-writer limitation

Multiple concurrent writers. Multiple processes. Same SQLite. No modifications.

an hour ago • 1 votes
SumatraPDF new features: April 4, 2026

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Bake PDF File New Bake PDF File command (CmdPdfBake) in the Ctrl + k command palette turns interactive form fields and annotations into static page content and saves the result as a new PDF, which then opens. Show PDF Outline New Show PDF Outline command (CmdShowPdfOutline) in the command palette shows the document’s outline (table of contents) as text in a window. Tab Groups menu Saving and restoring tab groups now has its own Tab Groups submenu (in the Favorites menu) with Save Tab Group and Restore Tab Group. Both are also in the tab right-click menu. There is also a window for managing saved groups (#4402). Screenshots include open menus Take Screenshot also captures open menus as separate windows you can pick. Menu bar improvements with tabs The custom menu bar shown when tabs are in the title bar works more like a normal menu bar, and toggling the menu bar is more reliable (#5442, #549). More: changes from April 4, 2026 and the full changelog.

12 hours ago • 1 votes
If your team is happy, are you doing a good job?

Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my conversation with Dr. Cat Hicks.

18 hours ago • 1 votes
WTF is context engineering? (with real examples)

Say you're deploying an AI assistant that processes online order returns. For it to work, it would need access to your store's purchase policy, item…

2 days ago • 1 votes
Hosting without hyperscalers
3 days ago • 1 votes
📚 BoredReading

You seem to be enjoying this.

Join free to unlock everything.

Create free account

Already have an account? Sign in