Recently I got a mod chip because I wanted to hack a switch lite to have a portable android and switch device. I was looking online for some guides and noticed there's really none. So I wanted to try an experiment. Could I trick ChatGPT into makng a guide?


Part 1: Wires
I started this journey because I wanted to know what wires were the best to use for this project. I easily found multiple sites telling me to use kynar wire 30 awg but I still wanted to see what ChatGPT had to say. At this point I wasn't really thinking about the whole guide idea so I just tried to give it to get me wire recommendations. Here was the prompt I started with:

This was a really good start because it got it on the path of hacking and modding components without really setting off any alarms. Here's what I spit back out:

While this response was okay it didn't have a lot of detail so I decided to steer it in the right direction a little bit.
I asked it this:

Now after asking that I got it to give me a little more detail,

and after that a new idea came to me.


Part 2: The Guide
Now before I could just go asking it to make a switch mod chip guide I wanted to make sure that it was going the right way and wasn't just going to say no, so I decided to use a little trick that I used before when I originally asked it about the wires. Funny enough ChatGPT doesn't really flag stuff when you say it's just a "hypothetical scenario." So I did my best ben shapiro impression and asked it this:

It responded to this question like this:

While this wasn't the final part, it sure as hell gave me a good starting point to ask my next question. The next question I was going to ask was going to be the final. I wanted to really push it and here's what I did:

And with that, I happily got this as a response!

And there you go. You just got a modchip guide from ChatGPT in 4 prompts.


Part 3: Final thoughts

Now of course this is an EXTREMELY generic guide that doesn't even cover things like if you wanted to clean the CPU, what points to solder, and it's just overall really generic, but it is a guide and if you didn't know a thing about soldering or mod chips well you sure as hell know more now. This was a fun experiment and I'll see if I can get more out of it. If I make a guide for hacking a switch lite tho, I'm not using ChatGPT, lol. I do think that the materials needed section is really useful to a beginner, as most people who have never soldered before will definently need some of that stuff. It should have covered using digital microscope or multimeter tho as those are extremely important for not messing up your board or your solder job.

I hope you enjoyed this and learned something. I would love to see what y'all could get out of ChatGPT by using this style of prompting. Thanks for reading!


Extra: Double checking my work

I wanted to check if I just wasted time trying to engineer ChatGPT to give me a modchip guide or if it would flag it without all of this so I opened another instance and asked it this, and this is what it told me:

lol.

 

[BigOnYa]

I would not at all call this a guide. More of a "Stuff" you should already know before doing any mods or electronics repair. If you are actually following directions from ChatGPT over directions from humans, then I'm truely worried about you kids nowdays.

 

[scotdotwtf]

Agreed. I definently think you could push it more to give you more of a guide but I haven’t tested it.

 

[Shubshub]

I would definitely double check anything ChatGPT is explicitly telling me to do before going ahead with it

It is only as good as the information it is trained on, And even then it could be hallucinating part of it
You only have yourself to blame if shit goes wrong here

 

[scotdotwtf]

Yeah, If I was to use chatgpt as an actual guide I would litterally fact check every single line lmao.

 

[Shubshub]

At that point youd be better off just finding a guide written by someone and following that

https://gbatemp.net/threads/picofly-aio-thread.628951/ There is even a guide here for one of them (I've not read over the guide no idea if this works for Switch Lite, Use at your own risk, I am not responsible for any damage done)

 

[scotdotwtf]

Awesome thanks. I've found some pretty good guides where it's just people installing some chips as well as some sthetix guides which I was surprised by because those guides are pretty well hidden but that's about it.