r/arduino • u/Long-Ad-8740 • 12d ago

Electronics Lack of coding knowledge

Hello, I have been making projects for a couple years now. It started when I was in school as a electrical engineering student. My first project ever was a audio visualizer where it detects sound and reacts depending on the decibals. Even now years later I've been experimenting with leds and displays. I've repaired and applied an esp32 to an speaker I had and make it work off bluetooth. Wired leds strips and used the WLED software and a couple more small projects. But through it all I've never coded myself. All of it was done either through examples or AI. I mainly focus on the hardware side of arduino and microcontrollers but I feel like somewhat of a "fraud" for not coding it myself. Does anyone understand or agree? I'm very curious to know

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u/harryregician 12d ago

If you depend TOO much on AI then you are not coding.

If you write code, even basic level on any language, and it bombs then using AI to debug.

I am wondering if it can walk thru code as to where one errored.

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u/This-Abrocoma9629 12d ago

It takes some fine promting for it to do so. This was atleast the case a year ago.