I'm surprised Gemini 1.5 isn't getting more attention. Despite being marginally worse than the leaders, its still solid and you can dump 975,000 (!) tokens into it and still have ~75,000 to play with.

I've been using it lately for microcontoller coding, and I can just dump the whole 500 page MCU reference manual into it before starting, and it gives tailored code for the specific MCU I am using. Total game changer.

Is the resulting (C) code maintainable, unit testable, do you understand it? If your answer is "I'll just ask gemini to explain it", I will laugh sarcastically and then sob for the poor people around the hardware you program for

I haven't had an issue (at least more than what is expected). I am also an EE, not an SWE. I use it for internal test systems and it has saved me tons of time that I would have had to spend combing the reference manual.

As I am sure you know, embedded code often has terrible portability and requires lots of "check the 500 page datasheet" to get stuff working properly.

Interesting, thank you!