RE: https://fosstodon.org/@adafruit/116071513892549636
How to tell a formerly respectable brand has jumped the shark (after selling out to Qualcomm, who are their own special species of shitbaggery):
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@cstross
This makes me sad. It's not the only thing that does, but it is one.
The fossil fuel money funding AI initiatives are looking for something that wastes energy like cryptocurrency wastes it.
By design, repeated queries are required because the answers are unpredictable & with a high error rate.
It's genius level fraud created by an industry bent on keeping its addicts.
Like any drug dealer, the fossil fuel industry is manufacturing a pool of addicts (captive consumers) with a dependency to something only they can supply.
@cstross@wandering.shop
Electricians: "look at this wiring.. thing.. gen AI showed me it's got so many things wrong if you even look at it you will die guaranteed."
Adafruit: "good news we used gen AI to design a piece of electronics you can buy from us and play with!"
@driusan See also:
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@cstross "We've been using LLMs for software and firmware for years..." - that's a good trick, as llms that can create code are pretty recent, and still crap at it... But thanks for the warning to avoid your code, Adafruit!
The "Ada" in their name would be appalled...
@cstross @adafruit For context, at least the symbol shown on screen does not look like something I’d accept quality wise for a library symbol. It has inconsistent pin spacing, the power pins should be on the top/bottom edges, for this kind of part the EP and GND pins should be stacked, the GND pin should be on grid, and the I2C pins should be on the left side of the symbol to preserve reading direction.
@cstross
"My dog dragged things around on my screen and it made a circuit board! Isn't that cool!"
"Nifty, thousand monkeys and all. So, what useful stuff are we getting next?"
"No this is going to change everythign and we're totally going to make my dog do all the design and it's going to be the best ever and..."
@cstross Arduino solid to Qualcomm not Adafruit (unless I've missed something)
@ben Ah, I confused adafruit with arduino. (Adjacent customer space.)
@cstross @ben You might be confusing the two because a while ago adafruit was posting about some changes to arduino’s privacy policy after the qualcomm takeover. Not long after, the partner of adafruit’s founder had a nuclear-scale crash out on fedi and other platforms going after a few unrelated people who did nothing wrong. The guy seems to be a real creep.