Thought something this stupid was just for shits and giggles. Then I saw this is LinkedIn and he’s a senior product manager.
Haha the joke is on the rest of us
But is he doing that as a kind of joke to show how awful AI is for that task, while being an actually decent product designer/manager himself? I hope it’s the latter, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he drank the kool-AId
I fully believe this story.
Looks like a vital component of next Tesla car.
e.g. blind
Why? Is looking at the damn thing before you pay money on manufacturing that hard?
This baffles me about vibe coders too. You’re already saving a lot of time just look at the damn code and see if there’s any glaring mistakes.
Why are we treating AI assistance like it’s all or nothing? Why can’t we just have it help a little and still use our own skills?
I can imagine the guy having to print this at the factory just pictures someone with schizophrenia making the board somewhere out there.
PCBs are basically designed using graphic editors. The editors all have their own standards and don’t really import pure text pass the netlist. Simply importing from one to the other is quite painful.
It’s basically trying to build a really really complicated SVG and llms struggle with simple svgs. And that’s only the Gerber, there’s also the whole schematic that needs to be done first from which the Gerber is built from.
PCB design tools are basically made to make our lives easier and avoid mistakes, but it makes it incredibly difficult for any kind of LLM, even before we hit all the intricacies involved in it.
Let it be known that this is the a*whole who gave Claude access to pcb site…
All three pins of that voltage regulator are shorted together. Not even sure how it’s possible to fuck up that badly.
Well, I now feel better about using OpenCV to fish in Minecraft…
I think you can ask for a textual connection scheme just fine. But you still need to create the Gerber file yourself.
Building the Terminator’s red LED eyes.
