Of course I did. Any developer is using AI. But you have to use it responsibly. I never said AI itself was bad, but we all SHOULD know that AI used improperly will easily provide bad code (and bad anything). The “developer” did not do any due diligence, trusted the output from the AI, and tested nothing and provided a non-working code base while saying it was “production ready”. There is no irony here. Any developer worth their salt will be using AI or be left behind. The question is, are you going to just walk in and trust every word it says, or do your job.
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So.. I have updated the tool, it works, its been tested in Linux / Ubuntu. Windows testing would be appreciated, setup is more complicated than i would like right now, but we can fix that. And this tool so far feels like a bit of a context hog, so i tend to use a ‘google search’ and the KiCad tool so LLM gets real time info. I am integrating the JLCPCB parts library, that will require an API key. see what you think. Its not abandonware.
I attempted to use this tool a while ago and ran into exactly the same problems that @seraphx2 described here. @JayShoe reported some interesting results, but provided no details on how he prompted the tool to produce them.
I tend to be pretty positive about the use of AI with KiCad, but I need to see a full example of how this tool produces a KiCad project including all the prompts and interactions before I’ll attempt to use this thing again.
What OS are you on? Ill try to create an installer for you. I have tested it in Linux, and Ill see what happens in Windows tonight. Ill try after the update (adding component library) to see if I can create a binary installer for Windows. You’ll hopefully only have to change a few settings in the preferences of Kicad.