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Executive Caitlin Kalinowski challenges Yacine's proposal to automate PCB design using ML models trained in custom simulators

Kalinowski argues cutting-edge PCB design requires hands-on, practical experience.

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Caitlin Kalinowski
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kache@yacineMTB#487inTech

The way I would automate PCB design is spending a year or so doing electrical engineering classes to learn how to make a simulator and then training models in those simulators as verifiers

Lukas Henkel@QVHenkel

This animation shows the electric field distribution inside the shielding can of the framework SDR module, with one of the traces acting as the excitation source. I need to run the same simulation for the filter path, but it looks like I'll need absorbers in the cavity

6:04 AM · Jun 11, 2026 · 18.8K Views
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Many users express enthusiasm for training AI in custom simulators to automate PCB design and offer collaboration or similar efforts, while others dismiss the idea as overengineering or already solved with existing tools.

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kache@yacineMTB

It would be incredibly difficult but possible

kache@yacineMTB

The way I would automate PCB design is spending a year or so doing electrical engineering classes to learn how to make a simulator and then training models in those simulators as verifiers

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Caitlin Kalinowski@kalinowski007

@yacineMTB School doesn’t teach cutting edge PCB design, it’s a novice-journeyman thing you really only absorb on the job

kache@yacineMTB

The way I would automate PCB design is spending a year or so doing electrical engineering classes to learn how to make a simulator and then training models in those simulators as verifiers

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kache@yacineMTB

@geogristle i make 125 an hour tweeting 😭

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Geogristle@geogristle

@yacineMTB you know you can make $125/hr doing this right meow

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Elliot Arledge@elliotarledge

@yacineMTB why not 2 weeks?

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Raul Izahi Lopez 🇺🇸@raulizahi

@yacineMTB 🎯

Spending that year and hiring more EE people to do it. Three so far, adding one more person most likely next week.

We are automating from architecture all the way to bare PCB manufacturing and, why not, assembly, by embodying the knowledge of proven professionals.

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kache@yacineMTB

@raulizahi i'm actually kind of curious and due to look into how to represent a PCB layout problem. it's some really cursed graph stuff, open research problem but i feel like its tractable..

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Caitlin Kalinowski@kalinowski007

@yacineMTB To train models to build cutting edge PCBAs you’d need a bunch of layout data/Gerbers from similar-class boards

Caitlin Kalinowski@kalinowski007

@yacineMTB School doesn’t teach cutting edge PCB design, it’s a novice-journeyman thing you really only absorb on the job

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Geogristle@geogristle

@yacineMTB just get a second monitor

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Clem@KodaClement

@kalinowski007 @yacineMTB oh 110% this was my first ever pcba in college that was learned entirely by YouTube 🙇🏼‍♂️

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Tim Hughes@timducktim

@yacineMTB This has been done for ages already (ngspice for circuits, OpenEMS and commercial field solvers for electromagnetics, thermal and SI/PI tools)... and it isn't the solution you think it is lol

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bluemarine@b1uemarinee

@yacineMTB man i thought that video was a restaurant on the top deck of a cruise ship first

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Esa@esa_was_taken

@BurnZeZ @yacineMTB thank you

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Dale Sparrow@DaleSparrow

@yacineMTB You are the very definition of accelerating acceleration

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aegrabs@aegrabs

@yacineMTB you mean 2 weeks

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BurnZeZ@BurnZeZ

@yacineMTB Analyze Richard Feynman’s approach when working on the Connection Machine.

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Raul Izahi Lopez 🇺🇸@raulizahi

@yacineMTB yes, it is, I'll add you as a collaborator so that you can see what I've been doing so far on layout. Pls check your DM.

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itchy@itchy_est

@yacineMTB Do it and start a company. You can raise

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