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From Web Dev to Factory Floor: A Developer's Journey into Industrial Automation
A web developer transitioning to industrial automation discovers that motors require software control. The author describes learning MVVM, Prism, and finite state machines instead of MVC and browser tools. The piece highlights the shift from debugging code to debugging physical machines.
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A personal career story that underscores the growing software complexity in hardware, but lacks broader industry insight or data.
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