We designed a replacement for an old high-voltage pulse amplfier, an EG&G SG-489 ca 1990. I wrote the new manual and included small pics of the old box and our version. I passed the manual on to an office person to tweak the formatting to company standards. For some reason, they decided to use some AI thing to improve the pics.
My original photos:
AI improvements:
Imagine letting AI improve a schematic!
Gosh.
I think you'd better hire a photographer instead :-D
My original cell phone pics are OK. The ones I posted here were captured from the"improved" manual. It looks like Word throws away resolution when you down-size a pic. That makes sense, avoiding gigantic Word file sizes.
The pics are small and look OK on a printed page.
One of our office ladies has a side business as a professional photographer, and she will take some better shots. But no AI this time.
On Wed, 07 May 2025 17:21:27 -0700, john larkin snipped-for-privacy@glen--canyon.com wrote as underneath :
That is amazing and terrifying at the same time! C+
The non ai versions you posted are not perfect. The first one is fuzzy or unfocused. The second one has shine.
Good :-)
Two small pics on one page look OK. And we were planning to have our pro photographer shoot better pics before we go public on my manual.
My point was about what AI does to electronic packaging.
Where can I buy a ribbon cable with a red stripe on both sides?
How many rackmount boxes have power cables on the side?
Our engineering jobs are secure for a while longer.
Makes the data flow twice as fast :)
But the serial data gets confused and neurotic.
ChatGPT can create LTspice asc files. Sometimes it's correct, other times buggy. As of yet, it does not know how to draw the lines in a meaningful way
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