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From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
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Subject: Re: nice board
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 13:08:47 -0700
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On Thu, 23 May 2024 14:58:38 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>On 5/23/2024 2:49 PM, john larkin wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 May 2024 13:41:03 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 5/23/2024 1:19 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 23 May 2024 13:07:48 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 5/23/2024 12:26 PM, Lasse Langwadt wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/23/24 11:00, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>>>>>>> On 5/22/24 23:09, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>> Or IC, or whatever it is.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://allinonecomponents.com/assets/img/circuits.jpg
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Artist's impression of ... something?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> might be AI ..
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This was generated on a circa 2016 Tesla M40 in about 20 seconds based
>>>>> on the original image as a guide:
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://imgur.com/a/baM5wMn>
>>>>>
>>>>> They're about $80 surplus now which is a nice value for an older GPU
>>>>> with 24 gigs of RAM.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would fire, and maybe harm, anybody who laid out a board that bad.
>>>>
>>>
>>> One more AI PCB hallucination, this one looks sorta realistic, if you
>>> squint:
>>>
>>> <https://imgur.com/a/6nxahFw>
>>>
>>> You can select XY tiling with this software and tile them out to cover a
>>> wall!
>> 
>> Typical crazy, idiotic  traces. Like a car with the wheels on the
>> sides, or a shower facing the wall.
>> 
>
>Yeah, I'll start getting concerned when it can be sensible with layouts. 
>But that'll be some other kind of software, this doesn't "know" anything 
>about electrical rules or any of that.
>
>It stitches together fragments of other images until some other AI that 
>also doesn't know anything about the rules can't easily distinguish it 
>from a training image, whaddya want.

There is auto-place and auto-route PCB sofrware - most layout programs
do that - but both tend to be terrible.