[sdiy] AI code generation

[Adam (synthDIY)]

> On 24 Jul 2026, at 10:40, Matthew Skala via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2026, Adam (synthDIY) wrote:
> 
>> Agree. Google AI (whatever they call it) had me de-soldering passives
>> here and there and testing and re-testing for this fairly simple
> 
> I hate to drag electronics into this, but one debugging rule I follow and
> try to impress upon my customers when they write to me for support is:
> 
> Never desolder things until you are sure it will help.
> 
> If it's "just to find out," you can almost certainly get that information
> in some other way with less risk of making things worse


Well, yes, that has been my experience too, but as I say, I started out trusting the advice I was getting and I had no schematic!
After a while with the AI, I developed a better radar for its rabbit-holes...

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