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> An engineer using Quilter completed the two-board system with 12 hours of cleanup on the baseboard instead of the 238 hours quoted for a manual layout, and 26.5 hours of cleanup on the System-on-Module (SOM) instead of the 190 hours quoted for its manual layout. In total, 38.5 hours of human input replaced 428 hours of estimated manual effort.
https://www.quilter.ai/project-speedrun
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We're going to see some very interesting things come from this
@feld I will be blunt: "efficient" really doesn't mean much coming from the typical high-tech person. In practice, it seems to mean only that if the high-tech person is doing something *faster*, they pretend to themselves that it's also better and more "efficient".
So the slop machine does a design faster. How do you know it's not also garbage? LLMs can't tell the difference between garbage and good information. How would you know the PCB layouts produced by an LLM trash machine are actually any good?
@feld so all knowledge is leaking away into a mere naive trust in a set of automagic tools. nope, don't like it at all, sorry