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Schematik is a program that aims to help people vibe code for physical devices. Hopefully, it won’t blow anything up.

Samuel Beek knew he had a problem when he blew every fuse in his house. The culprit was an electric door opener he had built himself, guided by instructions for wiring and piecing together a device drummed up by ChatGPT. Turns out, the chatbot wasn’t so great at distinguishing between wet and dry connections, so the device he had built sent out a surge of misallocated power that zapped everything else. Oops.

Beek, based in Amsterdam, admits he is not a hardware guy. But he had that itch and now really just wanted to make something that wouldn’t explode.

“That's the difference: Your fuses blow out, or you have a solid product,” Beek says. “That was kind of a learning experience for me to be more careful, but also to build AI that deeply understands what it's talking about.”

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160 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 3h

I like all of it, except:

to build AI that deeply understands what it's talking about.

The LLM doesn't "understand" on its own, unless you post-train it. What this means is you want to create an instruction set that is so great that it will do everything right, not forget things. So that it doesn't electrocute you.

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