Fleet operators running electric vehicles face an asymmetry of information that costs them money every week. The vehicles generate enormous quantities of data - battery state, voltage, current draw, motor temperature, GPS, speed - every few seconds. Most of it goes nowhere. When something fails, it fails in the field: recovery time, roadside assistance, cargo delays.

Lots of rhetoric aimed at leadership teams positions the question about AI and software development as primarily whether it will replace engineers. It's the wrong question. Asking it means missing something more useful. The better question is what a single engineer can build in an hour, starting from scratch, and what that tells you about how technical work is changing.

Non-terrestrial networks are a recurring subject I've been asked about over the last year or two. Interest amongst Automotive and IoT teams has been piqued by Starlink, and high-return space stocks like RKLB and ASTS have pulled NTNs into the public consciousness. So to answer these questions I'll skip the full telco perspective here and focus on practical deployment.