this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
11 points (82.4% liked)

Comradeship // Freechat

2341 readers
175 users here now

Talk about whatever, respecting the rules established by Lemmygrad. Failing to comply with the rules will grant you a few warnings, insisting on breaking them will grant you a beautiful shiny banwall.

A community for comrades to chat and talk about whatever doesn't fit other communities

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
felipeforte@lemmygrad.ml
11
Is deepseek weak on circuit design? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I've tried using deepseek (first time I've ever used an LLM, so maybe I'm being dumb) to help me a little with designing some circuit because my reference book was leaving out a LOT of crucial information.

The results have been ... subpar. The model seems to be making quite elementary mistakes, like leaving floating components with missing connections.

I'm honestly kinda disappointed. Maybe this is a weak area for it. I've probably had to tell deepseek more about designing the circuit in question than it has told me.

Edit: I realised I was just being dumb, since LLMs aren't designed for this task.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jayemar@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I suggested electronics communities because electrical circuit design is a rather niche topic, and I wouldn't think that many people have tried using LLMs for circuit design. But maybe some people in electronics and electrical engineering communities may have tried it and will have some advice.

What sort of output are you asking for? Is the AI giving you an image, or some sort of SPICE config, or something else?

I'm not sure which Lemmy client you're using, but I'm using Boost and doing a quick search I see the following communities :

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

What sort of output are you asking for? Is the AI giving you an image, or some sort of SPICE config, or something else?

I asked it for a SPICE model, but the model was generating diagrams with it as well to explain things. I didn't really ask for these, but seeing the mistakes was interesting.

I’m not sure which Lemmy client you’re using, but I’m using Boost and doing a quick search I see the following communities :

Yeah I'll look at these communities. I've never seen that instance before.