Behold: A vibe-designed pcb
2026-04-15 13:20 UTC
Replies (22)
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@middlemanSI@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 13:30
I fully believe this story.
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@dan69@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 13:33
Let it be known that this is the a*whole who gave Claude access to pcb site…
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@Infamousblt@hexbear.net 2026-04-15 13:36
Love this. Definitely no off the shelf parts exist for “I plug this in and a light turns on” so glad to see someone is working on creating this
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@thomas@party.lumanesence.co.uk 2026-04-15 13:36
It’s only a matter of time until the PCBs match the usual vibe-code colours that you get in vibe-coded HTML, haha
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@Eheran@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 13:58
I think you can ask for a textual connection scheme just fine. But you still need to create the Gerber file yourself.
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@otacon239@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 14:05
I can imagine the guy having to print this at the factory just pictures someone with schizophrenia making the board somewhere out there.
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@Grimy@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 14:12
PCBs are basically designed using graphic editors. The editors all have their own standards and don’t really import pure text pass the netlist. Simply importing from one to the other is quite painful. It’s basically trying to build a really really complicated SVG and llms struggle with simple svgs. And that’s only the Gerber, there’s also the whole schematic that needs to be done first from which the Gerber is built from. PCB design tools are basically made to make our lives easier and avoid mistakes, but it makes it incredibly difficult for any kind of LLM.
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@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2026-04-15 14:22
Looks like a vital component of next Tesla car.
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@Tabitha@hexbear.net 2026-04-15 14:40
ah, see here, the problem is, once again, rust. As usual. Claude probably isn’t trained on PCB like it’s trained on rust, and probably PCB doesn’t have something that validates correctness like rust, so that’s your problem. rust rust rust. this message brought to you by the Rust Defense Force.
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@ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 2026-04-15 14:57
Has he tried not wasting his time on stupid ideas?
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@7bicycles@hexbear.net 2026-04-15 15:47
see I get doing this in a kind of research way but then if the V1 is this bad surely this should tell you to quit
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@GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 2026-04-15 15:52
Thought something this stupid was just for shits and giggles. Then I saw this is LinkedIn and he’s a senior product manager. Haha the joke is on the rest of us
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@MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 2026-04-15 16:13
“I’ll just have it make a Hellow World to validate my workflow” “Oh no”
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@Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-15 16:38
Do this is ALMOST an actual thing. Seems like this guy tried to use an LLM to do something useful, lol. Meanwhile actual scientists are using actual AI to design actual conputer chips that actually perform better than their human competitors. That being said, the new chips are not “end-to-end” AI, theyre designed by AI and a human does the final touches. Theyre also highly unique, i cant find the article now but their AI designed a chip that seemed to use extra parts, i remember there was a diode and transistor that were literally completely seperated from the traces of the rest of the chip, and yet they were functional pieces and the chip wouldnt work if you removed them.
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@Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 2026-04-15 18:59
Well, I now feel better about using OpenCV to fish in Minecraft…
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@HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2026-04-15 19:01
e.g. blind Why? Is looking at the damn thing before you pay money on manufacturing that hard? This baffles me about vibe coders too. You’re already saving a lot of time just look at the damn code and see if there’s any glaring mistakes.
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@floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-15 19:18
Sorry but… Where the fuck is the LED?
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@roux@hexbear.net 2026-04-15 20:17
Big news: My physical AI slop doesn’t do anything. Amazing!
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@buckykat@hexbear.net 2026-04-15 21:49
It is a pastiche of a circuit board, more than an actual board itself I told the pastiche making machine to make a thing and it made a pastiche of a thing instead
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@ElectricTrombone@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 22:34
All three pins of that voltage regulator are shorted together. Not even sure how it’s possible to fuck up that badly.
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@ace_garp@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 22:38
Building the Terminator’s red LED eyes.
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@Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-16 17:53
A while back I trained a small LSTM based neural net to classify the power phases of a device I work on based on their current consumption over time. The model worked seemingly great and it took a while for me to notice that it did not catch every phase perfectly. Yesterday I created a larger and more complex CNN based model on the recommendation of my coworkers which I trained over night since I had to use my work laptop. When applying it to my real data I ran out of RAM. After fixing this issue and getting it to run, it misclassified far too many samples. I spent the rest of the day building an algorithmic solution that has yet to mislabel a single sample. This isn’t really all that relevant to the post I guess but I found it a nice reminder to myself to actually think about a problem instead of throwing brute force at it and hoping it will solve it. As a side benefit, I can now actually explain why my data is classified the way it is instead of pointing at a black box. There are definitely usecases for AI but you should know enough to recognize when an algorithmic approach is better suited.