Technology

I2C/SPI - and indeed most hardware interfaces - are of course trivial to anyone skilled in the art. Digging through badly written vendor documentation though, then comparing it with the reference implementation that was buried on a website behind a sign that says "beware of the leopard" and which directly contradicts the documentation on various key points, is a non-trivial and ultimately unproductive use of time - and AI tools can be pretty good at that shit.

Generative AIs are a useful tool. Most of the criticisms of AI vendors are also valid (apart from the water one, that's just bullshit,) but that doesn't stop them being a useful tool - and engineers who learn to use them as a tool will be more productive and will be more employable than those who stick their fingers in their ears and insist on only producing artisinal code hand-whittled with their grandfather's tools.