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It's a USB-C connector, so it would need slightly more that a single resistor to trigger power delivery. If I recall correctly, you can get away with two resistors formong a voltage divider on a specific pin to trigger a basic 5v supply though, so it'd be three resistors.
One 5.1k pull-down resistor on each of the two CC pins.
OK, conceded. Still quite different from the LLMs attempt.
Oh the LLM's attempt is nonsense on all sorts of levels. The board is too big, conponents only have one terminal connected, the socket is on backwards, there's random holes in the board, and I initially wondered if it was trying to use a power delivery IC, which would be massive overkill, but it looks more like a transistor, and it appears to have connected all if the terminals together. Oh, and unless d1 is a tiny LED, it hasn't actually included the very LED it's supposed to light.
Gaving the LLM desugn the board as an experiment is fine (result: fail), but sending it to be manufactured without even checking it was astonishingly wasteful. It's just more e-waste. The more I think about it, the more cross I get.
That’s the first physical manifestation AI slop I’ve ever seen. I hope OP frames it and hangs it on the wall. It’s a historic moment and having that remind you every day will be worth it.
If you don’t proofread the text, check the diagram and think about the code, you’re taking a huge risk, and this is the result. If you outsource your thinking to a feeble AI like that, you deserve a humiliating price like this.