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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.
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
Do you have to have them do the assembly too for that service to kick in? I’ve ordered bare PCBs a couple of times and wasn’t aware of it.
Not sure. I haven’t designed them but follow a few projects closely enough to have seen the designer saying the plant called about questionable traces. I’ve only ever bought bare PCBs.
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
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
it’s a demonstration of the amazing capabilities of AI 😂
Yeah I’m wondering what the purpose was for actually having this thing fabricated. What point was he trying to make.
It looks like he was trying to prove that using AI to make things is bad.
I get that, but you could have come to the same conclusion just by looking at the schematics. You don’t need to actually have the thing fabricated to make that point.
I get it as well, but some people need something a bit more solid to realise just how stupid something is. I haven’t looked at circuits since high school, but if I see something that just straight up doesn’t work, that’s undeniable.
He could have received the same board by having an intern or high school electronics student design it with no oversight.
He also could have sent the result to another AI with the prompt “point out all the errors in this design and tell me if we should have it printed”.
This was just a dumb “hur hur, AI bad stunt”
An unsupervised high school electronics student could easily design a PCB to power a LED via USB power. It’s an extremely easy task to accomplish, which is why it was picked.
Even someone with no training would put the USB port in a better position.
Then the point they were trying to make wouldn’t be as strong.
I guess the idea was to get more social media attention this way.
Art, of a sort.
A vibe-designed pcb?
Of course they’re a Project Manager.
Product manager, that’s worse
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!
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.
I dont know if it’s more about than any other meme. It’s just picture of thing that doesn’t work with text. Feels like a normal meme. If it’s ragebait because it features AI, that feels overly broad.
The guy is an idiot. I can understand trying to use LLM to make an electronic scheme, but sending the result to manufacturer without checking is a symptom of imbecility.
Dude says in the post that he just wanted to see what happened. If idle experimentation makes one an imbecile, then I suspect your standards for stupidity are out of line with reality.
There’s not much point in sending it to be manufactured when it would fail DRC and a quick visual inspection. Experimenting is fun but there was no point wasting the money to make it when it clearly isn’t a working PCB.
The point was to post a picture of the AI slop, not to get a working PCB.
It probably cost 5 dollars max including shipping for a funny joke object.
So you’re saying it generated the schematic and the pcb… and then they didn’t look at all?
Or that they did and didn’t see what was wrong with it?
They absolutely deserve to be the butt of jokes. I bet they let the robot summarise books for them.
He had an ai slop that pcb design out and then had it shipped from China. Even if they’re perfectly fine wasting their own time, shipping isn’t free
Have you ordered things from China? They practically pay you for the shipping.
I wasn’t referring to monetary costs
If you would experiment with PCBs, you would start with using a breadboard, no? This is just throwing money (and wasting resources and time) at something and hoping that something sticks.
But then you wouldn’t have a photo to show the world.
The photo is as good as a 3d render of the PCB in KiCAD.
Physical items are tangible, makes them more memorable.
I read it as satire. Is it not?
It’s a dude just messing around to see what happened.
It, most probably, is. But very stupid satire.
I’d argue this has incredible artistic value. And I think that was the point.
Hell, both Gemini and Claude have done well for me in throwing some code together for simple apps, but I still looked it over before running it. I try to do that for even human-made open source code, although at least in principle, if it’s been up a while, others have at least tried it and given feedback.
I’m sure this is just a joke or a proof of the issue; you’d have to look at the PDF or whatever it gives and see that something is way off.
And for the record, the best code that I’ve gotten from an LLM has been the first few runs of an idea, one that was thoroughly explained in the prompt. If you put together a vague prompt and continue to add to it, it will get worse quickly, with the LLM even changing parts that were perfectly fine. Maybe turning the temperature down, if possible, will help with that randomness, but it’s always better to keep sessions short and precise.
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.
Wow, didn’t know creating PCBs would be so cheap.
There are indeed much dumber projects you could waste money on. But rarely they would be so cheap.
It depends on how many layers there are.
looks like one layer.
wouldn’t it be D1?
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.”
Update V2: “Well, my house burned down”
Not too far off from modern GPUs…
/s
Just wait another month bro I promise it will get better bro (every month for the past 4 years)
