This is exactly my experience, wasted $60 trying to get it to make something. The founder sent an automated AI email about setting up a time to meet and go through it then ghosted me at the meeting time.
As an electrical engineer who has tried to use it multiple times, I think Flux is an absolutely awful product. No surprise at all that they want to sweep details about their “intellectual property, commercial traction and user base” under the rug.
A number of years ago I was working on something professionally and there was a problem. Only about 1 in 5 boards assembled wouldn't crash the CPU. After much debugging it turned out one of the ICs had an open collector output and it wasn't loaded correctly with a pull up resistor. This caused a cascading failure, held the bus up when initialising the hardware which hit the WDT and reset the CPU over and over again.
If you aren't there designing the thing in the first place, you never read the datasheets, never drew the schematic, never placed the components and thus don't know where to look when something goes wrong. And it does go wrong. And then you're in deep shit.
I worry about people who think they can get a product out of the door with this stuff but can't.
In the pure software domain, this is solved by letting the AI own the entire loop. The AI writes the code, runs the code, tests the code, troubleshoots the code and fixes the code.
Embedded might be resistant to it, because software-hardware interactions are notoriously hard to sim, and AI still struggles with meatspace operations.
Not that it would stop anyone!
You say "people who think they can get a product out of the door with this stuff but can't" and I immediately think: Arduino. That was also seen as a way to introduce people who understand nothing about embedded to embedded. Surely no one would ever go from an Arduino prototype to an actual production run?
Ha ha WRONG. I've seen actual production hardware ship with Arduino firmware, because no one cared enough to fully rewrite that cobbled together Arduino firmware from the first prototype. The FW team just went over it enough to whack-a-mole the most obvious issues, and shipped the result.
So, no. People are absolutely going to ship AI genned embedded hardware, and get away with it too. I bet that by now, someone already did.
I'm with you on the complexity of debugging hardware, as I've been there too. But I will say, automatically adding pullups to floating pins is something that an automated process could succeed at. Not first gen of blindly throwing an LLM at circuits and hoping, but perhaps a later improvement that uses metadata about parts. Perhaps curated metadata about parts, or always starting with a reference design and tweaking from there.
I am working on hardware debugging now. There are no good dataset for EE root-cause-analysis. Would be interested in hearing more from your experience: my first name at my HN handle .com
There's a big difference between a human looking at a datasheet and manually copying the reference design (possibly leaving out things like pullups because they're simple/obvious/etc, or go to a different block of the circuit than what you're focusing on), and a mechanical copy with the pullup resistor only possibly being deleted after an explicit reasoning step focused on it.
In the given example, the human process obviously failed, right?
Vibe coding is certainly the main part of it. But another problem is how deep our software and hardware stacks are. There is too much information to retain to solve problems now.
That's great. I bet you could merge some of my ideas into it. This was my second project so it's kinda messy. But I'm sure you could feed it to an AI to disseminate. Feed the MDs. Feed the repository. If you need any info feel free to ask. The idea is well thought out and was working in my system. The AI needs to be tooled to the system and also needs a more refined memory retrieval system such as how a protein finds a part of the DNA and then expands upon that spot, and a scrolling context window. Temporary KV caches for when the AI uses memory retrieval to prevent token muddling. https://github.com/zeoredd/XI
Very misleading title. It should be 'the high cost of surviving potential Rabies exposure.' Once you get Rabies the chance of survival is approximately zero.
My company does a lot of philanthropy with Children's Hospital in LA, and they are having a major shortage. I would gladly buy them from you to donate there if you haven't found somewhere to take them yet.
Painting is much easier for rooftop ads than vinyl. Difficulty installing anchor hardware without puncturing the roof surface, high winds, etc make it much easier and cheaper to use paint. The rooftop ads my company does are typically 50,000 square feet or more so using vinyl sheets that size (it usually comes printed in strips 6-10 ft wide) is impractical. I'm not sure how large these QR codes are but based on prices I've seen for rooftop ads in the past $8,500 is not surprising when you consider cost of paint, labor, and a reasonable profit margin.
I own a company that does this, and most advertisers do prefer to put an ad image instead of a QR code. We focus primarily on sites near flight paths at major airports and the Google Earth/Maps aspect is more of just an added bonus for us so there is some difference in target audience but our clients resoundingly prefer actual ads to QR codes. We've tried selling the idea of rooftop QR codes because they are so much easier to paint than e.g. a photorealistic person who is 250ft tall but haven't had any interest from clients so far.
Could not agree more. Having lived and worked in Singapore (and Zurich) I can honestly say that for the vast majority of people it is a great place to live. Singaporeans and expats all acknowledge that yes, it is more strict than the US or Australia, but unless you enjoy things like vandalizing cars, selling drugs, or stealing street signs you can live exactly how you like, with the added peace of mind of knowing that you have a near zero chance of being the victim of violent crime.
I am guessing (perhaps incorrectly) that most of the people who talk about what is "wrong" with Singapore have either only been there once for a few days or have never been and only base their opinion of the place on the story about the American kid who got caned.
I like it. I am one of those crazy people as well and have been kicking around the idea of making something like this. I keep quotes in a google doc and I have a ton of them so I'd love the ability to import a list of many quotes from a text file. Also would like the ability to edit quotes after I submit them. I included the quotation marks in my quote so the result has \" in it.
A couple of other notes: the export link seems to be broken, and when I click on the star the quote disappears. Using Chrome on OS X.
I have thougth about automatic import, but this requires all imported quotes to be in one uniform format, doesn't it? And to adjust the existing quotes would require a manual work which might be as hard as just adding the quotes one by one to quoterio?
I also have though about editing, but didn't like the idea because since your quote might be added by many users it would not be good, if your changes would affect all of them right? So in this cases I should duplicate the quote object for every user... But maybe I can let users edit quotes as long as they are not favorited by others... Thanks for this point. Until now you can just unmark the quote and create a new one, I'll take care about the rest.
> the export link seems to be broken
I'm quite sure it is broken by the quotation marks in your imported quote :) Thank you as well, I'll fix it.
> and when I click on the star the quote disappears.
That's true, because if you click on the gray star on your 'home' page, you unmark a quote and it disappears. This is a good point and makes it clear, that this behaviour is not obvious at all. Thanks for this. My idea was, that all you can do on the site is mark or unmark quotes. All marked quotes appear in "My quotations". All unmarked disappears. All inserted quotes are automatically marked as favorites. Probably, I have to rethink this.
A few business cards, various papers, glass of water, mug of pens/pencils etc., postcard received from a friend visiting Amsterdam, small buddha statue kind of like this: http://bit.ly/iO2Iy5
