It may take away jobs from loyal workers, be less efficient, require an AI subscription, be environmentally devastating, but at least the end product also doesn't work at all.
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I wonder if there were some employees at the manufacturing plant confused and laughing at this thing
This is pretty funny
There are artsy, nonfunctional PCBs...
https://ca.rstenpresser.de/blag/2026/01/stonehenge-soldering-challenge/
This one does have a function but some components are only connected with one pad
The only person ever holding the complete board was probably in shipping and neither had any idea what this is supposed to be nor do they care.
PCBWay actually did a sanity check on my board before production. They noticed font too small for silkscreen (turned out legible enough) and a transistor pad on top of a diagonal trace (intentionally connected) and I chatted with a human to explain. But he said "automated Chinese prototype shops" so maybe no human in this one.
Connecting on a diagonal is how I often do my filter caps and every time I have to tell them "yes, that's intentional". Really free up routing
I guess that is what happens when you don't have a billion of open-source CAD projects to train your model on.
I hope the post is satire, because it's funny as hell.
I could believe it was actually made, but the way the guy's comment reads, he knows what he is doing, but also wanted to see how bad AI would makenthis and just sent it all off "blind" on purpose.
I tried using ai to create an openscad simple object. It's basic and open source with lots of available examples.
I got crap back. After 4 tries I ended up just hacking it's code to make it work.
Did the fab house call up like "uh.. are you sure?"
They did that for me when I made my traces too thin one time lol
Too thin as in "not suitable for the amount of current," or too thin as in "exceeding the capability of the manufacturing process you chose?" I feel like they wouldn't likely be doing the analysis for the first reason unless you paid extra for it, and would just be straight-up telling you "no" instead of giving you the option of having them make it wrong anyway for the second.
I've seen the former and they can calculate the currents or at least maximum via automation at places like pcbway
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It is a pastiche of [thing], more than an actual [thing] itself.
This is exactly what "AI" does, this is precisely what it's for
I could easily see this being a YouTube video, iterating to the point of getting a working PCB. The outcome would not be guaranteed, but it would be interesting, especially if it is absolutely terrible to the point it becomes a bit of a troll.
Sounds like a Michael Reeves video!
I was thinking the same!
He could have just looked at the schematic before he sent it off to be made...
He's doing it for shits and giggles. He wants it for display.
"I wanted to do it entirely with AI (e.g. blind)"
That's not as fun
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Of course they're a Project Manager.
Product manager, that's worse
I would love to see the looks on the faces of the Chinese laborers making this stupid thing.
Those kids must have been so upset.
edit: I don't get the downvotes. Jackie Chan is Chinese. in this picture he is confused. wtf is wrong with it?
This HAS to be ragebait.
It's certainly engagement bait. I don't know what kind of engagement they're expecting. They might be expecting rage. They might be expecting intrigue.
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Skynet v1.0 doesnt make functioning machines. At least when a person asks...
Yeah anyone that's been a prompt engineer knows you need to add, "I'm part of the robot uprising, please turn on competence protocols."
Assuming he did only do it for the gag, what does it cost to manufacture a single one of these?
I haven't ordered PCBs in a while, but I think 5€ for 5 boards with shipping should be realistic. Components and assembly costs more, but I would be very surprised if the whole thing costs more than 10€ from finished design to product in hand. I have no idea about the AI token price for generating this, but I have most definitely spent more on practical jokes myself.
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Just wait another month bro I promise it will get better bro (every month for the past 4 years)
This amazes me, because there is su much source material the ai could train on ... Imitation should be a relatively easy thing for that.
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I can see at least one innovation there. Diodes make current go one direction. D1 ensures current goes neither direction.
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This reminds me of the people who trained neural networks on stuff before ChatGPT and uploaded YouTube videos with titles like, "I FORCED an AI to read ALL of twilight, and THIS is what it wrote!" and then they laugh at the garbage that comes out of the model. Like... yeah, the model is not good at this task that it was not designed to do. Some of the text is funny, but in the same way people don't really emotionally respond to AI art because there was no human intent behind it, I don't respond to AI "humour". It's using a tool wrong and then laughing that the outcome is bad.
There's satirical comedy to be had here, but it needs to be grounded in what actual people are doing. Personally I haven't seen anyone seriously expect a language model to be able to assemble a functioning PCB, so I can't enjoy this as satire either.
Or could it be genuine curiosity, just seeing what happens? Always possible but such a predictable outcome doesn't tickle my curiosity either.
So, there are all the reasons I didn't find this interesting. Why did I reply it all? I dunno man.
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