I love that, in order to reprogram my very expensive model locomotive, I not only have to buy a special device (ESU LokProgrammer) but I can also only use said programmer with windows.
Yeah I could have used some other decoder, but they all have limited functionality compared to Lol sound
There's no real reason a future iteration of the LokProgrammer couldn't run a simple webserver, or connect to Web USB.
This also all applies to most PLC programmers. Proprietary crap you have to run on Windows, just to build ladder logic
One of my favorite things to do with AI is when a slow teammates says something is far too difficult (without explaining why) is to just... try it.
Used to do it by hand, which usually didn't take nearly as long as they said, and now with AI I can often one-shot these type of things, at least as a proof of concept.
Part of why I'm not terribly fond of CLI harnesses, and prefer ones built into editors like zed. They can (but sadly rarely do) access structured information about your codebase, that's more sophisticated than looking for all strings that match
I use mine as a presentation remote, and as a USB interface for some micro controllers. Sure, I could buy a dedicated remote, or a bus pirate or other programming device, but I already have the flipper, so it suits me fine
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