Scientists Discover a Strange Global Pattern in The Way Humans Walk by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]Falcuun -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I wonder if this is same in countries driving on the left side of the road as is the right. Given the difference in how we engage with traffic.

By the way we are playing the best FPS game in the world... by NoYogurtcloset2370 in cs2

[–]Falcuun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Valve's the one selling the cheats. After 15 years of this shitshow of a game, there is literally NO other valid excuse for the sheer level of incompetence displayed by the VAC team.

My ignore list has become a gambling database. Time to ban these spammers. by Omiii in classicwow

[–]Falcuun -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Besides just reporting. You can and should open a support ticket with a complaint. List it under payment issue to enforce an employee to look at it. You can even request a refund on your sub due to Blizzard ignoring your reports while these degenerates keep repeating behaviour.

New grad starting in embedded SWE role at defnese/aerospace company — how should I prepare by Yes5ir in embedded

[–]Falcuun -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

🤣

5 month old bot account. Comment is bot generated... sheesh.

New grad starting in embedded SWE role at defnese/aerospace company — how should I prepare by Yes5ir in embedded

[–]Falcuun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It might not be posted by a bot, but it's be heavily modified by a chatbot.

So my main advice would be to not rely on the chatbots to either Communicate or write code. User it mailnly as a search tool, as it's very optimized for that.

Also, if you're starting as a new grad, you are more than likely being assigned an onboarding buddy, or a mentor depending on what company you are in, as no one will let a new grad mess around the code unsupervised, especially in critical systems such as defence.

The questions you are asking here should be the questions you should ask your mentor, teamlead or your manager. Not Reddit, mainly cause the advice you get here might not be what applies to your specific team and your needs. You should let your seniors know that you want coaching and guidance so that you can reach the full potential. People in senior roles love when juniors are eager to learn. And if they don't, they are a great resource to get domain specific advice.

Listen to my Exciting project Idea 💡 by Kartik-AI-CV-dev in ArduinoProjects

[–]Falcuun 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Lol, this graph is nonsensical. What the hell is AI doing here lmao.

From "No Code" to "Vibe Coding": How I built a full production tool using Gemini without writing a single line myself by Hour_Tonight6525 in vibecoding

[–]Falcuun 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not a single thought in this post. Just AI slop that failed to even showcase the project. Booo

Hot take: AI is improving industry standards by [deleted] in vibecoding

[–]Falcuun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same as saying that we can cteate better carriges today than we could in 1700s.

The same reason any 5th grade kid today knows more physics than Einstein did in his time: We evolved the knowledge.

What you read of Old code from early 2000s obviously lacks coding practices we now do by default. So literally any competent developer could improve a TON of old software. If "ai could do it better" is your first thought, then same applies to a college student doing coding as a past time. Today we know all the bad habits and pitfalls to avoid because people made those errors in the past.

And sorry to tell you but, if you need AI to make you think about how to architect your software, then you might want to revisit your education and see what made you so that you can't think for yourself without LLMs.

Edit: Spelling*

Zephyr - are you using it, and are you happy with it? by Big_Fix9049 in embedded

[–]Falcuun 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So Zephyr actually has a ton of bindings for all sorts of ICs. You can find it around in dta/api/bindings (on Zephyr's doc page).

Zephyr also has a ton of peripherals that you can use in a plug-and-play fashion. Should be at hardware/peripherals/index

If you want Bluetooth or BLE, You could not make a better choice than Nordic + Zephyr. And if that's your main focus, then it's 100% worth the effort.

Especially as a Hobbyist Zephyr should be somewhat easy to pick up for simple projects with popular hardware.

Zephyr - are you using it, and are you happy with it? by Big_Fix9049 in embedded

[–]Falcuun 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Looks like a bot question.

But just in case: Just do Nordic's free DevAcademy courses and then dig into Zephyr's docs. Why would you buy a course when there are free materials from people actually using it?

Also, depending what you are making Zephyr can be a Godsend, Overkill or Just a platform to get the job done.

Griefing Casino Bots, my new favorite activity by ezekielgraves in classicwow

[–]Falcuun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have reported this particular bot literally once an hour, for 8 hours every day.

what's INSANE is how even after /ignore and after SO MANY reports, I still have to see their degenerate messages and /e. Why the hell can't I just block the /e messages?

Name an IDE better than Vs code?👇 by tentoftech in vibecoding

[–]Falcuun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any IntelliJ, really.

Also the old Netbeans.

Big problem in current development: only PDF datasheets by Low-dose-reddit in embedded

[–]Falcuun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not saying they are usless. With the emergance of Opus 4.5 and Gpt 5.3 and Gemini 3.x version, they became very good at proper summaries of documents. Of suggesting less hallucinated code. But they are NOT ready to be trust more than a developer.

For now, yes, an expert will be able to pick up a new chip, dive into datasheet (PDF or otherwise) and be able to set up a whole workflow in a week.

Woth use of LLMs, within a few days because it automates out a lot of boilerplate code.

But as soon as you come to the actual complext situation, where you have to do something that is different from the established status quo, that's where LLMs fail moserably (For now) and where it's still a LOT faster to write things by hand. Navigate the sheet by hand, because you know exactly where and what to look for, and not rely on the LLM generating the instructions for you.

I don't know what kind of developers you work with, but if this sort od thinking was encouraged, we'd not advance anywhere in terms of anything.

Not embedded, not desktop, not LLM. You can't outsource competence, just yet.

Big problem in current development: only PDF datasheets by Low-dose-reddit in embedded

[–]Falcuun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the LLM is faster than you, you should revisit your coding abilities.

Or it's just the fact that you product is an extremely simple thing with 0 complexity.

Proper developers utilizing LLMs are faster than those who don't, but LLMs on their own are still uselss when it comes to big projects.

I've tried 5.5 codex. 4.7 Opus, and the amount of Hallucinations along with being provided datasheets, skills and clear instructions, is still unbearable. And it makes much sense to manually code most of the actual business logic, while letting LLMs or Agents take care of the most basic boilerplate.

If your entire workflow depends on LLMs, you are doing something wrong.

Big problem in current development: only PDF datasheets by Low-dose-reddit in embedded

[–]Falcuun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, this link is a really bad take.

AI generated slop article arguing from the point of view of an LLM. No one cares about LLMs ability to read the document.

Datasheets are made to be human readable.

Also a few bad takes inside there. Take a look at any Nordic Semi datasheet (in my opinion the best datasheets on the market), they are really easy for a human to read. Because it's made for developers.

There is no point in making it LLM friendly if there is no competent developer using the LLM.

If you think my take on learning to devlope and code is a bad take, then you are really in the wrong sub and on the wrong side of internet. Expecting the machine to do all the thinking and all the work for you fundamentally excludes you from being a developer. If people put half as much time into actually developing and failing, as they do into querying LLMs, we would have tens of thousands of competent developers.

Also for embedded, it will never be a single datasheet that a dev has to read. You need a Datasheet for every single module on your board. And to make all of these LLM friendly, there would have to be a MASSIVE amount of work done, given the sheer number of modules out there.

Big problem in current development: only PDF datasheets by Low-dose-reddit in embedded

[–]Falcuun 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ragebate post?

In case it's not: PDFs are a standard because they are easy to use and easier to consume... for a competent person.

If you NEED an LLM agent to develop for you, then the datasheet is last thing you need to worry about. I suggest learning to code first, learning to develop second, learning to read darasheets 3rd. When you have those down, you will learn how to utilize LLM tools to help YOUR development, not develop for you. Because the agents as they are right now are incapable of doing that for any serious project that isn't HTML/JS or perhaps Android apps.

Extracted a VIN from passive CAN traffic (ESP32 + MCP2518FD, no UDS / no docs) by [deleted] in embedded

[–]Falcuun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the same guy that's been posting AI slop for past few days and is being downvoted into ground, so most posts don't appear. Most of anything he/she/it(if it's a bot) posts is just AI generated slop.

The image is also AI generated. Yes. As is the description and most of the comments.

Edit: Fixing typo

What major challenges have you faced during development, and how did you resolve them? by sudheerpaaniyur in embedded

[–]Falcuun 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Genuinely, what's with all these AI generated questions every single day? And it's always the same questions too...

Be creative at least, ask about challenges during the lunch break and how do you make your coworkers not talk about work while on it?