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The Ultimate AI Shortcut That Wasn't

DEV Community·Chris·29 days ago
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#kicad#ai#hardware#automation#hand#spent
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The task at hand is drawing the circuit schematics for a robot I'm working on. I had already written down the components and the connections, all that's left is to draw it in KiCad. I had already started doing that, but then... I got sidetracked forcing Gemini to create the circuit using KiCad. I would have made progress if I had continued doing it by hand. I spent yesterday trying to generate an image of the final results. (Side note: Image gen 2 is clearly superior to nano banana 2 pro). In the end, I just got tired of prompting image gen models. As I was about to start continuing it by hand, I just thought, why not have the AI go through the process, rather than skipping steps to the final output? There were two routes to go down. The first was using "computer use", but I don't have a Claude pro or codex subscription. The other route was checking what format the schematic was stored in and having the AI generate that. Luckily, it was text.…

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