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Your AI agent writes ESP32 firmware that compiles. Then it kills the board.

I have been building embedded devices since 2016. In the last year I started letting coding agents write the firmware, and the same thing kept happening: the sketch compiled, flashed, and then the board did nothing. Or it booted and the relay never switched. Or it worked on the bench and reset ever…

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  1. 2026-10-31 12:55 · DEV Community — AI
    Your AI agent writes ESP32 firmware that compiles. Then it kills the board.

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