The people who actually get the money being made are the ones who want more money asap. They are the ones who set the (often unrealistic) timelines so that they can line their pockets sooner. After all, those yacht payments are coming due.

I had problems getting the Chromecast to connect to my IKEv2 home vpn at an airbnb, so I told Claude to fix it. It figured out there was no good way to make the existing VPN client apps work on my chromecast, so it wrote a new VPN client for me that works perfectly, all in about 20 minutes without me needing to do much more than supply my certs.

It also fixed SmartTube to work on my phone, the official app only shows 5 videos, Claude fixed the .apk to show 100+ thumbnails.

Fortunately Claude helped me identify the problem, and helped me fix it all on my linux server. I'm a bit out of my depth with anything difficult on Linux, and AI has really been helping a lot.

Yeah, it's called a web browser.

I've been waiting for the "porkbun screwed me" stories, but haven't seen any yet.

It's probably going to be like the titan submersible of cars.

Claude helped me cut my BOM costs on JLCPCB/LCSC significantly by suggesting cheaper versions of the parts I was already using.

It also designed a new board for me for KiCad 10 (a brand new project), including all parts selection from JLCPCB.

I ended up not using JLCPCB for the PCBA, I only ordered blank PCBs from JLCPCB because cost of PCBA was too high for this project, so I had Claude redesign the schematic to use through-hole parts that I will assemble myself. I was able to source all the parts from Mouser and Amazon.

I recently asked Claude (Opus 5.5) to design a wifi fan speed controller based on the ESP32 microcontroller. I told it to design a circuit for KiCad 10. I told it to write the software based on the ESP-IDF framework (for ESP32). I told it I would design the PCB based on the schematic it created.

It went to work. About 15 or 20 minutes later, it was done.

Everything looked good. Parts selection was reasonable. The first schematic was kind of weird, every part was placed on its own without any interconnected lines, so I had it re-do the schematic to show the part interconnections. It did a pretty good job.

Then I went to work designing the PCB. I had to find a project case and gave Claude some JPG images from the amazon page of the case dimensions, and it created a perfect PCB outline complete with mounting holes for the PCB.

I designed the PCB, but it's been a while since I did anything with mains voltage (120v here in the US). I asked Claude to analyze my PCB design, and it pointed out some issues with my trace routing, like not putting low-voltage traces crossing high-voltage traces, etc.

I then directed Claude to design its own PCB based on the project case constraints, and it did a fantastic job - way better than I did, honestly. It separated all the high voltage areas of the circuit from the low voltage areas, and clearly marked them with warnings on the silk screen.

I had it do all the part selection, and I purchased the parts - I'm not giving it my credit card to order parts, I can still do something useful towards this project.

I did not have to install anything for Claude to do any of this, it installed whatever tool it needed, and it generated the KiCad files.

So, this seems like PCB design is "solved".

Claude also wrote all the software for the ESP32 in another folder, including a web-based interface to control fan speed.

The PCBs and parts are on their way to me now. I guess I'll find out in about a week how "solved" this really is, but looking at the PCB design, it's looking really good.

Now it probably helps that I have 40 years experience doing exactly these tasks, so I can tell when something is going to work or not, and I know how to tell Claude what I want. Someone new to circuit/PCB design might have a more difficult time because you don't know what you don't know. I was very specific about the kind of circuit and parts I wanted - an ESP32 controlling a Triac controlling mains voltage with an optocoupler, etc - this is something I've built myself decades ago, so I already knew what "solved" looks like.

Only in your dim-witted head.

Go have a seat over there, this pointless internet interaction is OVER.

I found a dentist that wasn't, they even cut my bill from time to time from what the expected cost was going to be. They never up-sell me on the most expensive treatment. She's very kind and puts my comfort first.

I've been going to her for 20 years, even since I moved away - I will drive 1.5 hours in awful traffic to go see her, because other dentists just can't compare.

I tried a local dentist one time when I moved away, they sucked, badly. I went right back to my old dentist even though the drive is long. I'll never use another dentist as long as I live. I've referred friends to her, and they've had great service too.

A good dentist is nothing to take for granted.

Tell me you're not a web developer without telling me you're not a web developer. And if you are, you must be new here, or really bad at it. I've been developing websites for 30+ years, so I have no doubt I've been in this game and paying attention way longer than you have. Go have a seat over there, this pointless internet interaction is OVER.

Browser vendors come up with improvements.

The W3C board (which Apple and Google are a part of) gets to vote on the implementations and suggest changes.

The new feature either becomes a standard or not.

Apple wields their power here to block any new feature that could make a web browser compete with native apps where Apple can extract 30% of all purchases made through apps.

Apple isn't making suggestions for any changes to the proposals, they just block any new feature that might let browsers become as functional as native apps, purely out of greed.

Maybe Apple shouldn't hold back web standards to force people to install native apps where Apple can extract 30% of all purchases from the apps.

Those are quite the mental gymnastics you're doing here. You know, you could just choose not to install Chrome, right?

>If you want to use Google, they have a whole mobile OS you can use.

If someone bought an i-device, they don't get to choose, Safari is forced on them.

>Why take away my choice as a consumer that prefers Safari?

Calm down, nobody is taking away your choice by allowing Chrome to run its own browser engine on iOS. You're totally delusional and making shit up that would never happen.

Apple is the only one that's forcing you to do anything. They are the ones that took away your ability to choose. You seriously sound totally brainwashed.