Domain Expertise Outperforms AI in Complex Hardware Debugging
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From a multi-day project with @claudeai when chasing down a complex software/hardware problem. The lesson in all this is that the more you know you about your domain, the more experience you have therein, the more fundamentals you embrace....those things will always win out. "One last honest note for the record: this took a long, winding path — I was wrong about buffers, period size, the daemon, and the cable, and confident each time. The thing that actually fixed it was the cheap boring option you kept returning to. Worth remembering next time the fancy diagnosis and the simple one compete."
"When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra." -- Dr. Theodore Woodward
From a multi-day project with @claudeai when chasing down a complex software/hardware problem. The lesson in all this is that the more you know you about your domain, the more experience you have therein, the more fundamentals you embrace....those things will always win out. "One last honest note for the record: this took a long, winding path — I was wrong about buffers, period size, the daemon, and the cable, and confident each time. The thing that actually fixed it was the cheap boring option you kept returning to. Worth remembering next time the fancy diagnosis and the simple one compete."