Has he tried not wasting his time on stupid ideas?

Looks like a vital component of next Tesla car.

I fully believe this story.

ah, see here, the problem is, once again, rust. As usual. Claude probably isn’t trained on PCB like it’s trained on rust, and probably PCB doesn’t have something that validates correctness like rust, so that’s your problem. rust rust rust. this message brought to you by the Rust Defense Force.

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.

It’s only a matter of time until the PCBs match the usual vibe-code colours that you get in vibe-coded HTML, haha

I can imagine the guy having to print this at the factory just pictures someone with schizophrenia making the board somewhere out there.

Let it be known that this is the a*whole who gave Claude access to pcb site…

Love this. Definitely no off the shelf parts exist for “I plug this in and a light turns on” so glad to see someone is working on creating this

I think you can ask for a textual connection scheme just fine. But you still need to create the Gerber file yourself.