I'm tired. I've been at it since '89' when I was 15. Everything being on fire all the time (in the world and in my current robot project) is just burning me out.
Most of my curiosity is tempered by how it can make me money.
I do appreciate that 50-70% of the boring work can be done with AI agents now. As long as you know enough to have opinions and guide the process along, it can be helpful.
Expertise and learning don't seem to be AS important with the upcoming gen of developers. However, there is also so much out there now that it would be much harder to start from zero as opposed to being there from the beginning.
But I think gen X and Millenials were probably peak interest and curiosity, now it's just a job for the later generations.
I’ve been doing a lot of work with ros2 lately at work. Been seeing some moves with VLA models driving robots with text prompts. I think I’m going to focus more of my “free” time on mastering that technology.
Definitely some overlap there for sure but with different architecture — this is also an extension of the broader Infisical platform that a lot of companies use for secrets management.
I've been "Vibe Coding" this weekend with the vibe of a micromanaging tech lead or PM. Actually, it's not terrible if you just accept that you need to treat the AI like a year 0 engineer who is really good at googling.
I've run the project through cline and roo. Also tried Claude 3.7 and the 1M context Gemni 2.5 pro model. I'd say Gemini is less creative. But it's still good.
I can see how it is a productivity booster. Or at least it gives you the illusion of one. Really I think best part of it is just building out detailed documentation. That's really the killer app for me.
It's fairly nice just to build a simple embedded UI. There is also a useful editor now, though I haven't used it. It was implemented as a stand-alone program, I would have preferred a VSCode plugin.
It can be a bit difficult to get going on a specific platform, but once you have it going, it's smooth sailing.
I think it’s just nudging the wheel that is going away. Attention detection via camera is still in effect for FSD. And it won’t start FSD without being able to see you.
Can you elaborate on what it detects as attentive vs inattentive for enabling FSD besides wheel nudge? What are the worst case inattentive behaviors that are allowed?
I'm not sure if this is good or bad. I use an M5Stack tough for one of my products. It works ok, but I really wish M5 had some more OEM friendly options.
My experience dealing with Espressif is that they are pleasure to work with professionally. I come from a world where Atmel made a lot of sense for the lower volume I deal with. Atmel support was ok before they got bought by Microchip, now it can be impossible to find answers to problems, and support response is meh at best. When I started to move products over to esp32 a few years ago, it felt like a breath of fresh air. Things seemed to just work, and I could find answers easily in the documentation. They also responded pretty well when I found a problem that was a limitation of the chip that was only documented in a code comment in their low level drivers. Their response, including several emails, that the info would be included in the next revision of datasheet left me feel pretty good about the whole thing. I would not expect that kind of interaction from any of the chip makers I've worked with so far, especially adjusted for the cost of the chip.
So, hopefully this is a good thing for M5Stack. I don't know what kind of pressures this will have on the company internally, but hopefully their outward facing presence will only get better.
I don't think M5 is looking for OEM partners, it's pretty clearly a B2C solution. Espressif has most everything you need if you're looking to OEM something.
This was going through my head. From a cost of acquisition standpoint Espressif had already captured (effectively) 100% of M5 stacks users, so this must be a play to remove some inefficiencies and the supply chain they already have in place.
Espressif's more recent dev kits (the SBOX series) are very popular with hobbyists and overlap with M5 stack's products. I wouldn't be surprised if they just eliminated their dev kits and pointed people towards M5 stack's line up.
Most of my curiosity is tempered by how it can make me money.
I do appreciate that 50-70% of the boring work can be done with AI agents now. As long as you know enough to have opinions and guide the process along, it can be helpful.
Expertise and learning don't seem to be AS important with the upcoming gen of developers. However, there is also so much out there now that it would be much harder to start from zero as opposed to being there from the beginning.
But I think gen X and Millenials were probably peak interest and curiosity, now it's just a job for the later generations.