Reverse Engineered Repairs with Micropython and Claude
There’s a particular sound you never want to hear from a machine with two Tesla V100s bolted into it. A sharp zap, then half a second later the smell of magic smoke. I heard both, lunged for the PC’s main power switch and killed everything. Then I just stood there for a bit, not wanting to look. The carrier board those V100s sit on cost around $500 and isn’t the kind of thing you pick up at the local Jaycar; if I’d cooked it, the whole datacentre-under-the-desk project was dead in the water. That proper stomach-drop moment where you know you’ve done something dumb and you’re about to find out exactly how dumb. ...