I think the author assumed things will be spread fairly across the board. I don't think wealth gain will be evenly distributed.
The other issue I have with the article is that the author assumed unlimited resource to build the robots. Resources will be limited.
Building those robots won't be a nice green field either. I think there will be a lot of dirty waste by products that will be a major health concern for the human.
Same, announcements are kind of flaky. My usual command is "Alexa, announce <whatever to announce>" - half the time she asks what I want to announce, 20% of the time she announces "announce", 30% of the time it works as expected.
If i'm already on my phone sometimes I'll just type the announcement in the Alexa app instead.
This was how I started with my son, who was also 10.
Have him learned Scratch from MIT, learn how logic is constructed in a program
Then I got him a couple of Snap Circuit kit. I know you said no kit, but this is just to learn basic circuit and electricity flow.
Then we used a Raspberry Pi to learn Python.
Once he's comfortable with Python a bit, I set up an environment to program micro controller, specifically the ESP32. I flash Micro Python on there and we started to program some LED string lights. Then control motors with H-Bridges.
After that, it's onto robotics and anything we can get our hands on. I repurpose a baseball pitching machine to launch pickleball, with bluetooth connectivity to boot! All with an ESP 32, I can control the speed and rotation of the ball, which the original machine only had one speed and no rotation.
It took my son about 2 years to get from zero to building robots.
Good luck!
I'm in the same boat, except I recruited two people who are simi-techinical enough to at least know what are servers and services. I trust them with my computer and pw manager credentials. If anything happens to me, they will at least be able to provide credentials to any services, network, or devices I touched in the last 15 years.
I hope that will be enough, or at least ease the burden.
As the saying goes, the best time to start is 10 years ago. The second best time is? Now.
For me, starting a business is not a specific point in time. I constantly trying out different thing, asking for feedbacks. When I find a solution that solves the pain points for a lot of people, that's when it's time to start a business.
I try to repair as much as I can because I don't want stuff end up in the trash. If the parts are expensive, we need a way to source the parts from the non-fully functional units out there. From my experience, most people find the repair a daunting task and won't even think about it.
I think LangChain serves its purpose when you are new to AI and LLM and have to experiment a lot. That was my case. The landscape is changing so fast it is hard to keep up. With LangChain I was able to try different LLM and their features with minimal efforts. Granted, I haven't taken anything to production yet. But using LangChain to narrow down to the LLM you like, then you can use the LLM directly without going through LangChain.
