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Hi Andrew, amazing work and done for the best of reasons! I see you are replying in the thread, in your closing notes you wrote: > I would not have been able

Hi Andrew, amazing work and done for the best of reasons! I see you are replying in the thread, in your closing notes you wrote: > I would not have been able to get past the initial stages without ChatGPT. One of the coolest uses of LLMs for me is indeed exploring a problem domain where I am not a subject matter expert. The problem is if it leads you down a dead end or hallucinates a solution. Then, at the edge of your knowledge, you actually have a very small foothold with which to challenge these chat replies. Did you also face this on the more HW 'heavy' part of your project? Any tips on how to navigate terra incognita with LLMs?

andrewchilds 2y ago
Lots of trial and error! ChatGPT was sometimes helpful with hardware and electrical engineering questions, sometimes not. Since I would need to wait a while for the next version of the PCB to show up, it was important to check and verify things, but it did help me find my bearings and develop a general understanding of concepts. I learned a lot from open-source reference implementations from similar projects. I was able to get a lot of help while learning the software as well - in this case Fusion 360 and KiCad - though sometimes ChatGPT would invent a setting that should be there but isn't. As long as you have a rapid feedback loop where you're testing and verifying what it's telling you, I don't think you'll ever find yourself very far off course.