@orangutanlibrarian @malachai @adafruit To expand on Malachai's reaction too: There is also an issue with who owns the tool itself. Making footprints is a skill, reading documents is a skill. Those skills are important in electronical engineering to understand what you need to do. Now generative AI is a tool that generally is not owned by you the person but rather a large cooporation. using this tool would reduce the need for anyone to hone their skills. This causes a feedback loop where someone becomes dependand on the tool. Basicly a circle saw is a tool i often use, but I don't need a circle saw to make ca cabinet. I can transfer most skills over to my hand saws. It will take me a while to get a feel for the new tool and it isn't as fast but the underlying skill set is still the same. With generative aI as a tool that's not the same. It is basicly a new form of feudalism. That is ontop of the negative envionmental effects both dirrectly and long term.
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Here's Our First Gemini Deep Think LLM-Assisted Hardware Design@orangutanlibrarian @malachai @adafruit not really, managing the library and footprints is about 1/10 of thr work load of electrical design. Hardly ever you need to make your own footprint since most components use standard footprints. Realistically most vendors already offer kicad library files if not the footprint files. I would wager it takes me more work checking if the shitbox machine generated correct files then I am making my own files.