• A woman used a tool, shared what she made, it might even save her some time, and then some men lost their minds . • This is not a new story. • Guy Manning stood before a medical conference in New York City and declared that vacuum cleaners and dishwashers were “making housewives lazy.” The Chicago Daily Tribune ran it. • A January 1926 Cleveland newspaper editorial warned that labor-saving appliances were “eroding the nation’s work ethic” and leaving people with “too much free time.” By 1926, critics were predicting electricity would make housewives “lazy and fat.” A hundred years later, as an experiment, on Valentine’s Day 2026 with a newborn baby, Ladyada threw a MAX44009 datasheet at Gemini Deep Think and asked it to generate an EagleCAD library file. • Ten minutes later it spit out some working XML. • Ladyada checked the pins, verified the dimensions, and shipped a board.
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- A woman used a tool, shared what she made, it might even save her some time, and then some men lost their minds . This is not a new story. In 1925, Dr. Guy Manning stood before a medical conference in New York City and declared that vacuum cleaners and dishwashers were “making housewives lazy.” The Chicago Daily Tribune ran it. A January 1926 Cleveland newspaper editorial warned that labor-saving appliances were “eroding the nation’s work ethic” and leaving people with “too much free time.” By 1926, critics were predicting electricity would make housewives “lazy and fat.” A hundred years later
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