Determinism is interesting, there are many different interpretations and discussions of it. But I avoid choosing any side because there are arguments for and against it. Maybe you like the buddhist interpretation of it, your views sound similar to it, like anatta and karma

I once rewrote a large component in our codebase, which was the right move because it was unmaintainable. When I was done, I was quite proud of myself and I also think that i designed it nicely and extensible (coherent pipes) while keeping the constraints of the rest of the system in mind. Then the slop commits came in and you could watch it deteriorate so fast it is insane and sad. And additionally, I stopped caring, which is an additional loss

I get discouraged a lot of times seeing others just generate in some days what would have taken me months. But your point is what I keep in mind and it encourages me again. You can either stand still and externalize your brain to the cloud (trend) or actually develop it on your own (timeless).

just checked this talk and holy shit, this is exactly how I imagined these kinds of meetings, just a bunch of guys that agree on everything they say and probably feel so smart about it

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.

Auch hardware guy hier. Du sprichst mir aus der Seele :D Ich frage mich ob das so ein deutsches Ding ist. Jedenfalls finde ich toxische Klugscheißerei trifft es 100%