Vision language models are blind (192 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926734

On the other hand if I take pictures of circuits, boards, electronic components, etc GPT4o is pretty reliably able to explain the me the pinouts, the board layouts, reference material in the data sheets, and provide pretty reasonable advice about how to use it (I.e., where to put resistors and why, what pins to use for the component on an esp32, etc). As a beginner in electronics this is fabulously helpful. Its ability to pass vision tests seems like a pretty dumb utility metric when most people judge utility by how useful things are.