About this episode

Jamie and Curt discuss the challenges of running a machine shop, including AI, video production, and manufacturing issues.

In this episode of the Lone Machinists Podcast, Jamie and Curt once again prove that running a machine shop is mostly problem-solving, mild chaos, and questionable purchasing decisions. Jamie explains how Curt bullied him into buying a gimbal and why filming smooth shop footage is apparently harder than flying a plane, while Curt announces he's defecting in the AI wars and claims Claude is now the smarter shop assistant. Meanwhile in the real world, Jamie is busy pressing thousands of rivets a week, chasing a mysterious lathe issue that keeps snapping tiny parts, and discovering that the "slightly noisy" spindle on a friend's lathe was actually being held together by hopes, dreams, and a very destroyed bearing. Along the way they rant about AI scraping YouTube creators, the increasingly weird world of AI voice scams, questionable surface finishes, and why recording hundreds of hours of yourself talking on the internet might one day be the dumbest or smartest thing you ever did. Links Discussed: * Noughtical Work Holding: https://www.noughticalwh.com/ * Toxing: https://tox.com/en-us/technologies/clinching/clinching * caleys cans: https://www.youtube.com/@cayleependerass/shorts The…

Topics covered

• machine shop
• AI
• problem-solving

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