Is there more context to this? I'm assuming Ben is experimenting and demonstrating the danger of vibe circuit designing? Mostly because I know he has a ton of experience and I'd expect him to not make this mistake (also seems like he told the AI why it was wrong)

People make these mistakes too. Several times in my high school shop class kids shorted out 9V batteries trying to build circuits because they didn't understand how electronics work. At no point did our teacher stop them from doing so - on at least one occasion I unplugged one from a breadboard before it got too toasty to handle (and I was/am an electronics nublet). Similarly there was also a lot of hand-wringing about the Gemini pizza glue in a world where people do wacky stuff like cook fish in a dishwasher or defrost chicken overnight on the counter or put cooked steak on the same plate it was on when raw just a few minutes prior.

LLMs are just surfacing the fact that assessing and managing risk is an acquired, difficult-to-learn skill. Most people don't know what they don't know and fail to think about what might happen if they do something (correctly or otherwise) before they do it, let alone what they'd do if it goes wrong.

Ha ha, I said this before when Ben's post came up earlier, but, yes I am. And so far it has been a positive experience.