What analogy is used to illustrate the necessity of real-time adaptation in warehouse robotics software?

Managing an orchestra where instruments have different instruction manuals and run out of fuel randomly.

To convey the difficulty of managing a dynamic robotics fleet, a detailed analogy is employed comparing the software inventor to the creator of a conductor's score for an orchestra. This highlights the critical nature of real-time adaptation. The 'instruments' (robots) are diverse, possessing different instruction manuals (APIs), suffering unpredictable failures, and having variable performance limits (like battery life). The software's task is to create a dynamic score that instantly rewrites itself to accommodate these unpredictable changes—like a violin player needing a break or a cello suddenly speeding up—which fundamentally separates this software domain from static factory programming.