thats my exact specs, and its still doing ok, even for gaming

Yeah we shouldn’t forget that they probably don’t care about stealing, they are criminals. In their head they probably justify it somehow. And even if there will ever be legal consequences, they probably pay a fine and move on. Even if their dataset were ever leaked and everything was exposed, we would not be surprised and say “told ya!” and they would look into the camera like ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (shrug) and a laughtrack starts playing

But what exactly is the skill here? Even if you do some mental gymnastics and count prompting as a skill, this is just going to get easier and easier, there is no skill. I have accepted that this is going to essentially replace programming as we know it. But I do not want to be part of that. I can feel the cognitive decline already, how bad is it going to be in 10+ years…

I have the theory that this is also why the models recently got so good, because they have all these proprietary code bases and knowledge from very large companies in their datasets, must be a dream for Anthropic et al.

You can hook it up to a saleae logic analyzer via plugins. And for oscilloscopes, there are remote controllable ones, so that’s cooked too. A colleague of mine now really just sits in front of the hardware and does what claude tells them to

Designing PCBs is typically decoupled from manufacturing. And once you get a feeling for it, modern PCB design is like playing Legos, as you just pick and connect a lot of different ICs together (unless you’re doing some very specialized analogue stuff).

Thanks!! I worked in hardware engineering for about two years, designed PCBs, did testing and so on, but I thought it was quite boring to be honest, which is the danger of turning your hobby into your profession, I learned. You don’t end up doing the fun things (designing circuits and layouting) and most of your time is spent with documentation, meetings, and reading and following technical standards. I always wanted to do RF professionally but it didnt quite work out, which is OK. I somehow slipped into writing embedded software and some embedded Linux things. Anyway, this is good because I now enjoy doing hardware as a hobby a lot more while still having some professional knowledge to apply. (am OP, this is an alt account)

oh I have not heard of Dune3d before, I’ll definietly check it out. According to the docs it was initally created for electronics enclosures, which is is also my typical use case. Let’s see! I also missed chamfers/fillets in solvespacd which is why my recent creation looks a bit rough. I tried to import it into freecad to do it in post processing but that caused all kinds of other issues haha. (am OP, this is an alt account on-the-go)

This opens up the Ship of Theseus thing again.