Why do we use SAT solvers today? In 2001, they became fast enough that we can apply them to real-world problems.
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The US Navy is exploring ships that are more highly automated. The crew is smaller, and their roles are generalist problem solvers.
Elegant demo of SAT solvers: take a list of locks and which keys should unlock the (e.g. master keys unlock multiple), plus a set of manufacturing constraints.
Feed it to a solver and calculate how to cut all the keys! https://codingnest.com/modern-sat-solvers-fast-neat-and-underused-part-2-of-n/
A real industry usecase of SAT.
SAT solvers are underused in tech: an introduction and a fun example of sudoku solving: https://codingnest.com/modern-sat-solvers-fast-neat-underused-part-1-of-n/

