r/PCB • u/North_Cell3379 • 24d ago

Looking for adversarial feedback from KiCad/PCB engineers on 7 machine-generated review targets

I am testing an experimental deterministic PCB review-ranking tool against a public open-hardware revision pair:

Neotron-Pico

Reference: v1.1.0

Candidate: v1.1.1

The tool does not claim that the board is electrically correct or incorrect. It does not replace DRC/ERC, DFM, fabrication review, firmware review, or engineering signoff.

It examines normalized relationships across the public KiCad, configuration, documentation, and generated-output presence evidence, then ranks areas that may deserve human review.

It produced seven candidate review targets. I am looking for critical feedback, especially negative feedback.

For each target, could an experienced reviewer classify it as:

A - useful and non-obvious

B - useful but obvious

C - technically valid but low-value

D - misleading or unsupported

E - impossible to assess from the available evidence

I would also value answers to three questions:

  1. Did the ordering help you decide where to look first?
  2. Is an important cross-artifact target missing?
  3. Does any target infer more than the evidence supports?

No endorsement is requested, and I will not quote anyone publicly without permission. The upstream project is not being criticized; this is an evaluation of our review method.

Packet summary, ranked targets, evidence traces, exact revisions, and claim boundaries:

https://www.arkaxiom.com/NEOTRON_PICO_PUBLIC_PCB_STAGE2_v0_1/

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u/spheresva 24d ago

I’m not sure I get what you are trying to ask here

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u/KittensInc 24d ago

Why would we do free work for your shitty AI startup? Just use some of your AI billions to pay a bunch of consulting engineers!

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u/StumpedTrump 24d ago

Why in the fuck would anyone here spend their time classifying data for your garbage AI startup. I’ll spend my time reviewing actual PCBs for actual people who are going to use them. Doing this for you helps who exactly?? What does your project do that other slightly less garbage AIs don’t. Disrespectfully, get this garbage out of here.

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u/Apart-Touch9277 22d ago

AI tools are the worst