> I could only get about 80% of what I wanted together with my hacky workflow.

I literally did this yesterday with solid results using Codex CLI. I used xhigh thinking and gpt 5.5.

I had it use KiCad directly via cli rather than via MCP, and I did make Claude Opus review it's work after every round. I got what I think will be a working revision A in about 10 hours of tinkering spread over a few days.

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nathanielks 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Is 10 hours a short amount of time for designing a PCB?

	▲	tatjam an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'd honestly love to see the PCB. Using an LLM for a mostly geometric task like PCB layout feels like using a hammer to cook a chicken, unless KiCAD has some kind of text-based description language i'm not aware of that gets around having to specify coordinates.
	▲	markrages 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Faster than some, slower than some. PCBs come in all different levels of complexity.
	▲	phlipski 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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