I have a huge stack of embedded development boards at home—all kinds of SBCs, microcontrollers, FPGAs, and more. Over the years, as a hobbyist, I've bought them consistently. Overall, I’ve definitely bought much more than I’ve actually used.

Before LLMs came around, the friction in using them involved dealing with various compiled manuals and spec requirements. Just setting up the environment could consume the entire focus of the project before I even started writing the actual logic or code.

Now, I use cc to specifically handle those inner layers that aren't really part of the creative design. When it comes to what I actually want to build, the most interesting part is the creative process. I use cc to handle the environmental noise, things like linking errors, driver conflicts, register initialization failures, etc, so I can focus on the work itself.

LLM for researching and writing the code, while human handles the architectural decisions. This seems like the correct way to divide the work.

There is something quite ironic about old hardware becoming increasingly useful due to current developments in AI research. I wonder about the repercussions of this.