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The AI debugged his hardware by pinging him to move a resistor or cable

A man set up his agent setup so the AI could ping him on Telegram when it needed hands. Working on hardware together, he got a message every 5 to 15 minutes telling him to move a resistor or patch cable in a set way, and following the instructions they got the hardware working the way he wanted.

How it works

  1. He adds a tool to his setup that lets the agent message him when it is stuck
  2. The AI runs the debugging and works out the next physical change
  3. It pings him on Telegram every 5 to 15 minutes with one instruction, move this resistor, swap this cable
  4. He makes the change and the agent tests again
  5. The hardware ends up working as wanted

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent did the thinking and used the owner purely as hands, one Telegram instruction at a time, until the hardware worked.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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