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Wed 16 Sep10:4043 d ago
Magic SmokeBB-0207dev.to
LLMs confidently lie about your microcontroller: board details that broke generated code
In a dev.to post, an embedded developer lists board facts that broke LLM-written firmware after it compiled and flashed. An ST7789 panel needed a 34-pixel offset. A Waveshare ESP32-C6 board shares SPI lines between its display and SD card, and ESP32 ADC2 stops working while Wi-Fi is on. The author's answer is mcu-skills, Claude Code skills for 8 boards.
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