Jeff Bezos reportedly wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI

This is either genius or the most expensive vanity project ever. Automation in manufacturing is genuinely hard — not like software where you iterate in weeks.

But if anyone's got the capital to retool a factory floor with robots and vision systems, it's Bezos. Real question isn't whether he can do it — it's whether it'll actually be profitable or just another "we disrupted an industry" TED talk.

$100B is massive. Old factories are money pits. I'm betting 5+ years minimum to see returns, if ever.