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eqvinoxlast Sunday at 1:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

> or good oldshool USB 2.0 Cypress FX2LP CY7C68013A or its Chinese clone Corebai CBM9002A

I intentionally did not suggest those because dealing with an 8051 isn't something I'd inflict even on my worst enemy, let alone an open source hobby project.

That said if it's vibe coded I guess the AI can deal with it? shrug


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raszlast Sunday at 3:43 AM

Thats what I was thinking, tell AI to add translation to a codebase already tested in production. But even without AI doing all the work fx2lp ata bridge reference design is in C and very readable

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webdevveryesterday at 5:52 PM

> dealing with an 8051 isn't something I'd inflict even on my worst enemy

surely armed with a C compiler + LLM, this is a non problem nowadays?