On: Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software

[rao-v]

How good is your esp32 support? This could make a lot of home automation hobbyists very happy!

[Catbert59 → rao-v]

ESP32 works okish with Gemini/GPT5 and Claude.

They offer a lot of public example code and documentation. LLMs inhaled that.

But they still produce a metric ton of unusable hallucinations.

[ismokedoinks → Catbert59]

I've been trying to start on embedded in my own time, but I don't have much experience at all and have been spinning my wheels getting up to speed. I'm generally YouTube/docs first, but do you find any particular LLM to be most helpful and reliable at a introductory level?

[Catbert59 → ismokedoinks]

No really.

If you want to learn embedded you should try to understand the example codes the vendor supplies.

[etgibbs → rao-v]

you can upload the esp32 docs to your own project, but we are working with espressif to have first party support for the docs baked in