[holoduke]

I just reversed engineered large parts of my 2011 car odb comms. Was able to hook a stm32 board to the car communication and have full control over a lot of stuff so that I can build my own instrument cluster from a lcd screen. It literally took me one evening to get the first proof of concept working. I never touched stm32 stuff before.

[dgellow]

you did none of this. Did you personally learn something from that experience? Other than how to use your agent

[holoduke]

Of course I learned from it. I mean the reverse engineering part which is basically try and error is something I rather skip. The remaining things like wiring the hardware is still there. The boring stuff is what the LLM can do for me. I still find the process to get stuff working challenging and interesting. It's not only about the end result. It's just a different approach than the old school low level one

[specproc]

Good for you, son. I've just spent the whole f*king day screaming at an agent on a deadline.

[rolandog]

This right here. People simp for LLM companies as if their experience of using the out-of-pocket top-of-the-line "team of PhD's" paid models will be what is deployed when trying to contact your bank, insurance, etc. No,... once tech companies stop playing the "no/some revenue until we own the world" VC game, we'll all be stuck trying to talk to GlueSnifferGPT when reporting an emergency.

[holoduke]

That will never happen. You know that. It will only become more and more. there is no return. My advise: don't stick with those blocker ideas.

[rolandog]

Not sure I follow; more and more what? And what do you mean by blocker ideas?