[sdiy] AI code generation

[Benjamin Tremblay]

You’re right; web search is now just a funnel to Gemini; a low-context Gemini with Google as its MCP.  
Claude is a power tool for me. As a hobbyist with scarce free time it has helped me finish projects that would have languished. But honestly if I spend an afternoon just prompting a console, it’s not very satisfying. It’s like cooking up a pcb and waiting for it to get fabricated. 
What that experience does show me is how absurdly ambitious my ideas are and how fully implementing my ideas blows scope. I am very impressed with the results but get vertigo thinking about how steep the climb really was. 
What Claude and Gemini both got wrong: Minimizing circuit noise. Only experimentation and patience got me through the hardware issues. I wasted some money buying parts they said would help. Won’t do that again, but it was one of the AI suggestions that led to an optimal solution. 
I learned a lot because I am curious and can’t resist asking the model as many “whys” as possible. I can’t afford to do that at my day job. 

Benjamin Tremblay

> On Jul 23, 2026, at 5:27 AM, Adam (synthDIY) <synthdiy at adambaby.com> wrote:
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>> On 23 Jul 2026, at 18:58, Sarah Thompson via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
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>> I miss having Google actually work properly as a search engine.
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> That's an interesting comment - it makes me realise I have noticed this change in its behaviour.
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