Learnings from the Scrap Heap Garage

  EVs and AI: Progress That Rewrites Work Electric vehicles (EVs) and artificial intelligence (AI) are often framed as clean, efficient, and inevitable upgrades to existing systems. EVs promise reduced emissions, lower operating costs, and simplified mechanical architectures. AI, meanwhile, enables predictive maintenance, real-time diagnostics, automated decision-making, and unprecedented optimization across industries. Taken together, these technologies represent genuine progress. They reduce waste, increase efficiency, and respond to urgent environmental and economic pressures. On the other side, they also do something less visible, being that, they redefine what it means to be technically skilled. Where internal combustion engines relied on mechanical intuition, which involved, sound, vibration or wear patterns, the switch to EVs shift the center of expertise toward software, power electronics, and closed digital systems. AI further abstracts decision-making, embedding j...