Is a Chinese robot vacuuming and mopping my floor every day? Yes it is. Could I do it better manually? Absolutely. I still prefer the robot to do an ok job than to do it myself.

Most people in software misunderstand how physical goods work. When making machines you don't care about getting everything perfect all the time, you care about staying within tolerable limits all the time.

How bad do the folds in your laundry need to be for them to be no different then just being dumped in a pile? As long as we are above that point the robot is useful.

I don’t need it to do it faster than me, I just need it to do it instead of me.

Plus it’s obvious it will get better.

> Super slow and bad at it

Eh, this still has value for me if it can do it reliably. Leaving a robot to badly fold my t-shirts overnight and then badly put them in my closet the next day is fine. I don't need my casual wear beautifully folded. But I do need it organised, and that's apparently a chore I'll just never learn to like doing.

So what? it can take hours to do it and I can focus on something else. If these robots actually become available on affordable price I would buy one without blinking. It would totally free up my weekends, no more hours wasted doing laundry, cleaning the apartment etc.

My dishwasher is also super slow and bad at it. But you know what? I still prefer that over doing it myself.

I am worse than the robot and I don’t mind if it takes 3 hours to do it.

The very first car was absolutely awful. Super slow and bad at it.

It can do it over 8 hours while you're sleeping though.

You're missing the forest for the tree.

I can also vacuum my floor 3x faster than a robot vacuum. But so what, I'm not there when it happens.

"Did you see the output of that Chat GPT 2? It's super lame code"