Oh I definitely don't expect them to help with CAD and nor would I want them to — I really enjoy knowing FreeCAD.

It's more the microcontroller choice, broad components, all that.

The main areas I find LLMs struggle with research, I struggle with research too. I am a pretty solid researcher and I find it validating, in fact, to find that a more brute-force-trained thing is not better than me.

I see your point about the snarky reply; I must admit I have probably in the more distant past been somewhat snarky but I stopped commenting like that whenever I spot myself doing it because I know it is dispiriting.

(The other reply, re: early and late stages, is the kind of substantive question that lingers in my mind).

Anyway I just want to reiterate my thanks: I am sort of cynical about this, in that I believe the technologies may have their uses, but I have no time for the cult and the hype train, so it is nice to see anyone talking about actual things.

By the way, I've written up my workflow if that interests you: https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/