Yun-Ta Tsai is a Senior Engineer at Tesla.
He posts in English (mainly) and in Classical Chinese. A man after my own heart.
Here’s his thoughts on what’s going on right here in this world, right now. Even as wars and civilisational challenges surround us.
Attempted to write a Steam Engine hype at the era of Industrial Revolution as if it was the age of AI —
The steam engine breakthrough is insane right now.
Watt’s separate condenser + new GRPO optimization just dropped the 405 hp-class engine. We went from 7 hp → 70 hp → 405 hp+ in basically three years. One machine now does the work of 50+ men or water wheels — nonstop, rain or shine, anywhere.
Textile mills, ironworks, everything scaling 5-10x overnight. Productivity exploding.
This isn’t incremental. It’s automating physical labor at massive scale. Jobs shifting forever. Society about to look unrecognizable.
The Industrial Revolution isn’t coming. It’s here and accelerating faster than anyone predicted.
Terrified. Excited. Both.
What a time to be alive. 🚂💨
Next post about Yun-Ta will be a bit of Confucius.
