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I'm sure this is not an original thought, but after some initial skepticism I'm starting to see the promise of LLMs in various SW applications. I can imagine n
by 01100011 4y ago
I'm sure this is not an original thought, but after some initial skepticism I'm starting to see the promise of LLMs in various SW applications. I can imagine never having to actually know make/cmake/scons/etc syntax ever again, for instance. Opening up a codebase and getting an increasingly detailed technical summary would be amazing.
While I'm thinking of it, does anyone know of anyone working on 'stable diffusion' style design of hardware? I could see a system where you effectively just dictate your requirements and out pops a schematic and board design ready for fabrication.
- exitb 4y agoGPT programming abilities are surely influenced by the fact that much of our computing infrastructure runs on open source. There is A LOT of high quality, real world computer program sources out there to train on. I don’t think the same is true for hardware, outside of really simple things.
- johntb86 4y agoAlso, are there any schematic or board design representations that use text and are feasible to use with a language model? Maybe a spice netlist would work for a schematic, but a gerber for a board layout might be difficult to work with.
- buescher 4y agoThere are in fact human-readable ascii formats for board layout, like the old PADS ascii format and whatever KiCAD does. I saw some experiments using ChatGPT to make KiCAD footprints and it was not promising.