They actually can route just fine. I used Sol to design and route mine from start to finish. Sent it to PCBWay and had a working prototype in a few weeks.
replyIt was a pretty simple rp2040 based thing, similar to Adadfruits USB feather.I just gave it kicad and it wrote python to route it. The board was probably larger than it had to be, and two of the silkscreens were swapped, but it worked on the first go.
FWIW - Computer vision is also NP complete, but we do that all the time now.
I'd love to see that chat log, and the final board. To be fair I've only been testing on nontrivial PCBs with 6+ layers and I haven't had the luck you have.
reply> FWIW - Computer vision is also NP complete, but we do that all the time now.
I have no idea what you mean by this. What's your definition of NP complete?
Where LLMs completely break down is the next step, PCB routing.
replyNo. Take a look at https://www.eevblog.com/forum/eda/claude-code-for-pcb-design... . Fable did that by working directly on an EAGLE .brd file (well, "directly" by writing a Python program to do it, but still.)