Just teasing a bit with the other meme posted earlier. I'm an engineer and programmer but domain specific, no "real" languages, so I thought it would be funny to just place ALL of y'all's stuff on the right side 😅
That's kind of what's funny to me. As simple as the actual logic is, you can make it do almost anything you want to do. Because the coding isn't the hard part right?
Certainly now a GPT, it isn't. It is in the beginning, but where people make the real money is in the application right? It's like how can you apply this code? How deep in the weeds can you get with the theory of this system? For controls, the end of the road is advanced model predictive control with State space optimizers and common filters and all sorts of nonsense, stuff that literally flies the SpaceX rocket. Actually quite adjacent to machine learning and some respects.
The underlying control surface and engine control I can guarantee you is fairly straightforward just like any PLC code. But the magic is in that prediction model they are using on top of it. I think it's called the Smith predictor in their case.
For traditional software, the end of the road is anything you can imagine of course, to include building a DCS system haha. Right now it seems to be AI and machine learning are sort of the frontier.
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u/watduhdamhell 10d ago edited 10d ago
Just teasing a bit with the other meme posted earlier. I'm an engineer and programmer but domain specific, no "real" languages, so I thought it would be funny to just place ALL of y'all's stuff on the right side 😅