Yes
using LLMs I can iterate ideas at a crazy cadence
cpldcpu on Hacker News
In the thread “Google CEO Pushes 'Vibe Coding' – But Real Developers Know It's Not Magic”
Helped: Rapid prototyping of system concepts across hardware/software domains.
Got in the way: GPT 5.1 was unresponsive and intransparent as a code assistant.
… Instead of trying to find suitable simulation environments and trying to couple them, I can simply whip up a gui based tool to play around with whatever signal chain/optimization problem/control I want to investigate. Usually I would have to find/hire people to do this, but using LLMs I can iterate ideas at a crazy cadence. Later, implementation does of course require proper engineering. …