Is Hardware the New Software? Redditors Weigh Building Physical Products with ChatGPT
themegapint · reddit · 2026-11-08
A Reddit discussion asks: instead of vibe coding another piece of SaaS slop, what is it actually like to build hardware with ChatGPT — from the first prompt to a final physical product?
The accompanying image, from "Building physical things with Justin Lin and ChatGPT," shows a handheld pink palm-sized AI device, suggesting ChatGPT is already being used to assist design and prototyping of real gadgets.
The thread taps into a growing theme: whether LLM-assisted development can bring software's cheap, fast iteration loop to hardware, lowering the barrier for solo builders to ship physical products.
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