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Re:Can AI design circuit boards yet? by cmiles8 on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:12PM (#49569652)
Have tried this a few times. While AI has been helpful in talking through component choices and other topics, it’s consistently been a spectacular fail each time in actually designing the board.

I’ve had similar results asking AI to design 3D models for 3D printing.

“Coach me on optimizing error on my printer”… helps.

“Build me a print ready file to these specs.”… it’s like a drunk cat attacked my computer. Just confidently puts out total nonsense.

Re:Can AI design circuit boards yet? by sitzkrieg on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:38PM (#49569939)
LLMs like to fail spectacularly at real life measurement and not tell you about it as well