Has anyone read this yet? I'm extremely skeptical of any book published after ~2024 just because of how much AI slop is in physical books these days.

Looks interesting, but I'd like to see some reviews on the content first before buying.

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mdp2021 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> extremely skeptical of any book published after ~2024

The problem is with that 'any':

> Drawing on more than 30 years of embedded engineering experience, David Such takes you through the complete engineering process

Would David Such ruin his reputation after 30 years building it?

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gumby an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Bill Pollock (who is nonstarch press) is a very serious editor so I would not worry about that with NSP books.

Of course it’s a small operation, and so isn’t under the same pressures of a big operation. When you’re a boutique operation your only differentiation is quality. Your rule of thumb is unfortunately probably pretty good in the general case.

	▲	matherial an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The editor is not the one producing the text. For this book, the sample chapter seems to make heavy use of LLM output. Pangram agrees. I guess that for books about AI it's fair game? Eat your own dog food so to speak. People who don't like AI are not the target audience.