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Comment · 2 months ago
It seems like this is just controlling KiCad. Assuming this produces a BOM as well, you could take the output files, send them to a board house like PCBWay or JLPCB and get the boards stuffed and shipped to you.

The board houses may have questions for you that may be difficult for you to answer, but theoretically you could answer those with AI and get fully assembled boards delivered right to your doorstep.

Comment · 2 months ago
He didn't charge "whatever the market would bear" for prescription drugs. Also there is obviously a huge difference between urgent/emergency care vs more routine procedures. If you're getting a routine colonoscopy every few years, it may be feasible to shop around.
Comment · 2 months ago
It refused to answer anything about pickling for me. Always kicked me down to Opus which is comical.
Comment · 3 months ago
I live in the Boston area and there is a candlepin bowling place called Needham Bowlaway where the owner has done something similar. He automated the scoring system since nobody from outside New England really knows how to score it and it works really well. I believe he used some basic java code to detect whether the pixels at certain areas are white (pin) or not (no pin). He's always working on developing a video game every time I'm there although he may have finished by now. Maybe there's more overlap between bowling centers and software engineers than OP thinks.
Comment · 5 months ago
Curious who you ended up using and if you recommend them.
Comment · 5 months ago
The tool I'm most proud of is "Hex Flex" (https://seidleroni.github.io/Hex-Flex-Web/). It is a tool to view and compare the contents of Intel Hex files. Should be useful to other people who work in the firmware field.

Not exactly a tool, but I also made pelohard.com which ranks the most recent Peloton classes by difficulty. Updated twice daily.

Comment · 5 months ago
I am absolutely gobsmacked how good the game is! I didn't complete the level fully but I completed all but one of the tasks. This is both smooth and fun and I'm surprised that a modern LLM can do something this well, let alone in a single file. It makes me realize how much the goalposts have been moved. A few years ago (ChatGPT 2? 2.5?) wasn't even able to implement a small Python script I would expect a junior engineer to be capable of producing. Now we're getting the tools to do something like this. You should think about how to "rate" the outputs or at least provide your own rankings.
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Comment · 8 months ago
I can't imagine doing something like this anytime soon, but I will probably follow the advice around having AI check the return against all my forms and previous years return before submitting.
Comment · 8 months ago
I was explaining this to my elementary school aged kids just a few days ago. We were eating in a restaurant and I told them that when I was their age most restaurants had a smoking and non-smoking section. Of course the smoke did not respect the invisible barrier. The idea that people could just smoke indoors and it was normal really blew their minds.
Comment · 9 months ago
I suspect they made this public because many customers will notice that they are no longer carrying Adafruit products. I respect both companies greatly and have purchased from them in the past. It will be interesting to see what happened, if that is made public.
Comment · 10 months ago
This is really cool! As someone who has basically no piano training, this is fun! Perhaps there could be some super-easy mode where you actually highlight the keys while you're playing the sounds (in simon mode) to help the super noobs train their ears.
Comment · 10 months ago
I think there is also some FOMO involved. Once people started saying how AI was helping them be more productive, a lot of folks felt that if they didn't do the same, they were lagging behind.

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