Hello everyone,
I was wondering if someone could share his experience with using AI for optimizing their time and resources regarding electroncis design?
I am trying to understand how can I use it to help my work and was looking for examples, anything from schematics to BOM checking, documents making, logic validation, really anything that you use AI for the job I would appriciate hearing about.

 

In my (albeit limited) experience AI (at least the free versions) is pretty useless at generating workable schematics.

 

Welcome to AAC.

Establishing a workflow that effectively uses an LLM AI (e.g.: ChatGPT, Claude, &c.) will require optimizing the role of the AI so that the vetting of their output doesn't cost more (in time and risk) than you get back.

This means limiting their application to go/no-go type analysis rather than generation, or using an adversarial approach where you have two or more instances of the model critically reviewing each other's output.

Do not count on accurate graphical representations (e.g. schematics) or mathematical operations unless you intend to verify all the numbers, which might cancel out the value or the AI (or not, you have to decide).

The models, when properly used, are most effective in explanatory roles—that is answering questions about possible candidate solutions or important concepts. All of the foregoing assumes a general purpose model. If you actually train your own domain-specific model it is quite possible you could find a high level of reliability for your application (though the graphical representations do not track specifics and with current approaches will never be precise enough to make schematics.

 

IN much of my engineering career the value of the engineers was to KNOW HOW to do things the best way. AI is not going todo that for you. ALSO, creating new concepts that had ot been done before. AI will have nothing to look at as examples, so it cant help. UNLESS you are working on the "just build it and try" scheme, instead of one based on understanding how things work and are related.