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Originally Posted by gblake
Well, I propose moving in the other direction and working to shut down the egregious post-44-days modifications (not easy to do, but worth the effort, I think) (fixes are one thing, wholesale rebuilds are another).
It's certainly not a forgone conclusion that what I'm calling competition-creep is the right direction to move the FIRST programs. While many folks seem to think that is the right direction, I'm advocating going in the other direction.
Intelligent people can reach different conclusions. These are my opinions.
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You're advocating removing the ability to improve robots between events? Would that change make the FIRST experience reflective of an actual engineering process? I'm just an ignorant student, but I was under the impression that engineers don't usually just throw their first prototype out the door, without testing in real-world conditions, and then later decide not to make improvements when they are able to.