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PennRoboticstoday at 9:08 PM0 repliesview on HN

At the very least, you can (and probably should) put a plaintext netlist and BOM into an LLM to triple-check your work.

It will use the part datasheets and decent EE logic to cross reference pins and parts and polarities and generally check that SMD caps and resistors have realistic specifications for their footprint, switching regulators and communication ICs are configured correctly (e.g. when you have resistor settings for an ethernet PHY indicating 100Base-T and RMII, you also won't need TX/RX 2 and 3 and two clocks and a COL net, which it would check), all nets are named and linked correctly, buses have the correct and consistent termination, and so on.

It's game over once AI figures out autorouting.