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  1. 4 mo ago

    Magic SmokeBB-0074youtube.com

    Claude Code with Nordic's MCP misses a two-board BLE bug that only the device logs reveal

    Adsum Networks set Claude Code with Nordic's MCP on a BLE bug where data flowed one way between nRF52 and nRF53 boards. Running Claude Haiku 4.5, it guessed at fixes from the source and looped without solving it. Adsum's own IoT Coder, on the same model and with live logs from both boards, found the boards' roles were inverted.

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