If you want to get into embedded you’d be better suited learning how to use an o-scope, a meter, and asm/c. If you’re using any sort of hardware that isn’t “mainstream” you’ll be pretty bummed at the results from an LLM.

I got into embedded 10 years ago, there really is something about driving hardware directly that is just so rewarding.

For AI I've been using Cecli which is cli and can actually run the compile step then fix any errors it finds - in addition to using Context7 MCP for syntax.

Not quite 10x yet but productivity has improved for me many times over. It's just how you use the tools available

That’s where it really shines. I have a backlog of small projects (-1-2kLOC type state machines , sensors, loggers) and instead of spending 2-3 days I can usually knock them out in half a day. So they get done. On these projects, it is an infinity improvement because I simply wouldn’t have done them, unable to justify the cost.

But on bigger stuff, it bogs down and sometimes I feel like I’m going nowhere. But it gets done eventually, and I have better structured, better documented code. Not because it would be better structured and documented if I left it to its ow devices, but rather it is the best way to get performance out of LLM assistance in code.

The difference now is twofold: First, things like documentation are now -effortless-. Second, the good advice you learned about meticulously writing maintainable code no longer slows you down, now it speeds you up.

At work I use it on giant projects, but it’s less impressive there’s

My mold project is around 10k lines of code, still small.

But I don’t actually care about whether LLMs are good or bad or whatever. All I care is that I am am completing things that I wasn’t able to even start before. Doesn’t really matter to me if that doesn’t count for some reason.

You may just be more knowledgeable than me. For me, even getting to algorithmic creation of 4-6 part molds, plus alternating negatives / positives in the different mediums, was insurmountable.

I’m willing to believe that I’m just especially clueless and this is not a meaningful project to an expert. But hey, I’m printing plastic negatives to make silicone positives to make plaster negatives to slip cast, which is what I actually do care about.