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.
not quite. copperhead operates on its own hardware IR, compiles verified KiCad files and generates manufacturing outputs.
we're also building a design house around it to close the loop with fabs, handle DFM questions and eventually let you hit "order" and receive fully assembled boards!
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.
He didn't charge "whatever the market would bear" for prescription drugs.
His prices are fairly comparable for his limited selection of cheap generics compared to other mail order options. Also, his pricing is cash only --- no insurance.
But dispensing drugs is not really comparable to "health care". Running a hospital comes with a lot more unknowns and risk.
If he has it all figured out, why hasn't he bought a hospital? Let me guess --- it's not a good investment.
If you're getting a routine colonoscopy every few years, it may be feasible to shop around.
Have you actually tried this? Most won't give you a fixed price up front because of the potential for things to go wrong.
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.
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.
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.
Also, I just listened to the latest Volts podcast and they make the claim that data centers will actually lower the cost of electricity fairly soon (~2030). Very counterintuitive but it does make sense. We'll find out soon enough.
I've been telling my friends this since LLMs launched. If your interest is in lowering the use of fossil fuels, then a global race for compute is great because the increased demand is probably going to usher in a nuclear/solar revolution in the energy sector.
It feels like a very large segment, on both sides of this argument, is completely incapable of forming nuanced opinions on this stuff.
Mostly nodding along, with a few of these aged in interesting ways from where I'm sitting.
The drones bit hurts the most. There's a war an hour from our border eating FPVs by the millions, and Poland - sitting on batteries, motors, chips, a generation of engineers - has not stood up a real domestic drone industry. Money is there. Will is there. We just... haven't shipped. That should keep ministers awake.
EVs are worse. Izera is a punchline at this point. Noah literally called the play in 2024 - "don't bet on one champion, run a bunch and let them fight" - and the state did the exact opposite. We picked one horse and it never left the stable.
The Korea idea, on the other hand, Noah might have undersold. Framework agreement is for ~1,000 K2 tanks. By 2030 Poland will field more main battle tanks than Germany, France, the UK and Italy combined.
Rest holds up. "Try all the things" is right - we're just very uneven at the trying. Defense procurement: shipping. Civilian industrial policy: not so much. Software still works the way it always has: quietly, in apartments, mostly without the state in the loop. Which honestly might be a feature.
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.
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.
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