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I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project
A quick project spiraled into a marathon of AI missteps, hardware headaches, and hard-earned lessons. Welcome to the story of Deskthang.
The TTY (TeleTYpewriter) serial data port on Linux/dev/ttyACM0 for USB communication with the Pico felt familiar because of how I had setup debug logging in the past. In the above image you can see the outright lie that broke me… USB CDC has separate TX (Transmit) and RX (Receive) buffers so it’s bidirectional safe. My grand vision of outsourcing grunt work to AI had sent me soaring, but the sun of reality burned away any hope of landing gracefully.
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