If you drop them all the way from the top of the stack, this is what happens

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This

Oh, so they can’t get autonomous driving to work, thus the next step is to get people who are sleeping to steer the cars remotely

This is the way.

Luckily the postgresql docs have links for exactly that

It’s like if farmers were just letting plants do all the work, instead of manually assembling the potatoes themselves

That sounds super familiar :D

Anyway, a prototype is not a bad thing, if the managers know the difference. It’s easier said than done to “do it right the first time” if you don’t know how / what to build. Prototypes can be built to validate hypotheses and generally figure out what works, then build the real thing afterwards.