This whole shit is so dumb...
When you say “AI expert” in your CV, that sentence goes into the same bucket in my mind as “JIRA expert”, you’re wasting the text space and my time. And since you can’t see it I have difficulties taking you seriously
Everyone is “AI expert” those days it doesn’t take a special talent to connect an LLM to your text editor
What’s ironic is that all those #atlassian engineers that were displaced because of ~their boss is a moron~ “AI displacement” have AI generated CVs featuring AI skills right at the top, and it’s kind of sad 😔
I’m basically knocking them all down because all I want is to hire a good software engineer not some whimsical AI guru.
While I was at it, I have also added a custom input processors for mouse acceleration and cursor movement smoothing and a better temp layer implementation
Also the pmw3610 driver is now clean and solid. Runs SPIM, wakes up from sleep, allows to manage DPI mid flight and all
Surprisingly enough almost everything in the new keyboard PCB worked just fine, including all the new optical sensor setup
The only thing that’s pending is the LCD wiring, there is some GPIO conflict with QSPI or something
But otherwise it’s all surprisingly working. Not bad for the first try
about a year ago i wrote a ZMK setup for a fully custom keyboard with an optical sensor, and it took me about 2 months to get it right.
today i needed to do the same for another similar keyboard, and i have LLMed the fuck out of it in two hours with claude code. fucker even digested my kicad files to get pinouts right
Bought a new project yesterday. It’s a bit beaten up and tired and the sound engine is garbage, but it has a keyboard designed by actual bechstein piano engineers with full grand piano size key sticks and rather convincing action
So I’m going to service the keyboard and then rip out its brains and audio system and build something better from scratch
Probably repaint it too in the process into something more obnoxious
Both sides are wired now. I’ll cut and fit the gasket mount next, and it’s all about firmware after that
A keen observer might notice that there’s only one pair of keyboards and tl;td is that wiring this version was a miserable experience and I don’t want to release it like that. I’ll verify that the electronics work and then redesign the wiring to a FPC #keyboard #keyboards #electronics
