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Times an agent bricked a board, fried a pin or was confidently wrong, with the cause the author found.

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  1. 38 d ago

    Magic SmokeBB-0214arxiv.org

    Unsafe actions halt real-robot trials of GPT-6 Astra as a robot policy

    Wenbo Zhang and colleagues ran GPT-6 Astra as a zero-shot robot manipulation policy on the 42 simulated RoboDojo tasks. It ranked above all 40 public policies on that board. On real arms, the team halted testing after the model repeatedly issued unsafe actions. The paper says some incidents damaged hardware and nobody was hurt.

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  2. 3 mo ago

    Magic SmokeBB-0107app.stationx.net

    StationX: an AI agent designs a KiCad 10 badge and DRC catches its beginner mistakes

    Nathan House had an AI assistant with KiCad 10 design a coin-cell LED blinker badge. It picked an NE555 that needs 4.5 V, put a via 0.0285 mm from a pad, broke courtyard rules and reported a 150.4% duty cycle. The article says datasheet checks, DRC and an analytic check caught each one before any board was ordered.

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