I’ve tried using deepseek (first time I’ve ever used an LLM, so maybe I’m being dumb) to help me a little with designing some circuit because my reference book was leaving out a LOT of crucial information.

The results have been … subpar. The model seems to be making quite elementary mistakes, like leaving floating components with missing connections.

I’m honestly kinda disappointed. Maybe this is a weak area for it. I’ve probably had to tell deepseek more about designing the circuit in question than it has told me.

Edit: I realised I was just being dumb, since LLMs aren’t designed for this task.

  • RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 days ago

    Though I’m not in electronics, I am in software development, and I have tried using various language models for basic circuit development for very small side hobbies, and I have found it to be mixed at best.

    It works better when it’s integrated into a search engine so that it has real humans explaining things so that they can just do the summary and not build something from scratch.