[ctstoner]

Who we are We’re electrical engineers who have lived this pain firsthand for a decade; Brandon (OP) has designed a dozen boards, while I have built over 250 through production. Years ago we spun up a brand-new product line in two weeks to help salvage a $150M deal. That meant 18-hour days spent picking parts, doing CAD, paying $$$$$ for three-day prototypes and praying everything worked (one did blow up when we accidentally shorted 3 kV into a metal screw on the desk, we nearly died cause of a sleepy brainfart :dizzy_face:). Even from that working version, it took an additional four months of redesigns to get through certifications and into production. When ChatGPT shocked the world in ’22, we realized that the initial superpower of AI in electronics isn’t in generating designs (too risky — one mistake kills the board), but in digesting the endless unstructured documentation that plagues (benefits? :thinking_face:) our industry.