[sdiy] Vibe Circuit Design

[Oren Leavitt]

Yep - my Facebook feed is full of that crap.

- Oren

On 1/26/26 6:01 AM, Roman Sowa via Synth-diy wrote:
> There is so much AI BS on facebook, that I block them all. It's so
> irritating that I cannot even laugh at them, although I think the
> intention was for them to be funny. The circuit is always drawn with
> nice graphics and actual component look instead of symbols, and
> ridiculous errors everywhere. The worst part is that judging by the
> comments lots of people fall for it.
> 
> Roman
> 
> W dniu 2026-01-26 o 06:28, brianw pisze:
>> So far, nobody has mentioned AI...
>>
>> As soon as I saw "Vibe Circuit Design" on the subject line, I assumed that this was a reference to "Vibe Coding" - which lets an AI try its hand at writing code. Thus, I figured that the red-hot component was the result of allowing an AI to design a schematic without a human reviewing it for obvious mistakes.
>>
>> What's the background context for this, Don?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2026, at 9:12 AM, Jason Proctor <jason at redfish.net> wrote:
>>> I wired up the transformer in an 1176 build the wrong way. I thought
>>> the smell was it just warming up... well it warmed up all right.
>>>
>>> On 23 Jan 2026, at 18:05, Donald Tillman <don at till.com> wrote:
>>>> Got a ways to go...
>>>>
>>>> https://x.com/beneater/status/2012988790709928305
>>>> <Screenshot 2026-01-23 at 12.01.54 AM.png>
>>>>
>>>> -- Don
>>>> --
>>>> Donald Tillman, Palo Alto, California
>>>> https://till.com
>>
>>
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