alt Hacker NewsWhere's the performance data?
Anybody can send a PCB description/schematic into an LLM, with a prompt suggesting it generate an analysis and it will diligently produce a document that perceptually resembles an analysis of that PCB. It will do that approximately 100% of the time.
But making an LLM actually deliver a sound, useful, accurate analysis would be quite an accomplishment! Is that really what you've done? How did you know you got it right? How right did you get it?
To sell an analysis tool, I'd expect to see some kind of comparison against other tooling and techniques. General success rate? False negative rate? False positive rate? How does it do against simple schematics vs large ones? What IC's and components will it recognize and which will it fail to recognize? Does it throw an error if it encounters something it doesn't recognize? When? Do you have testimonials? Examples?
I'm sure your feedback is appreciated, but the tone of your reply is a skeptical engineer with arms crosses. This is a show HN post, and we should support the founder(s) if we think this is a good idea. Clearly a MVP product is not going to check all your boxes, but does it have the potential to be really useful?
I see this idea as a sort of AI ERC/DRC checker that offers some incredible opportunities. Even if it only catches one small, it could save thousand of dollars down the line.
It's another tool in the toolbox for hardware designers.