| We knew that we had to build a foundation first to have any shot at getting AI right. I worked at Meta for years and knew first hand that ML/AI can only ever get good with loooots of training data. So we needed a way to produce lots of high quality training data first and a way for users to be able to reason about results and edit them. There is a graveyard of failed AI hardware design projects and one thing they all have in common is that they are black boxes…its very obviously the wrong approach. But every week a new one pops up…I don’t even understand why anyone funds this stuff anymore frankly…it can’t work. So we embarked on building our own eCAD editor first…that was gonna be step number one. It was also the hardest and most expensive way to go about it… but if you have big dreams then you just have to go and do big things. I recent these get rich quick schemes personally anyways…I love doing hard things! LLMs just starting to get good around the time we had the editor ready for public launch (after years of beta) was a happy coincidence that makes us look like geniuses now. But I take it lol. We had been actively playing on the side for the past 6 months on ideas for first AI features as we geared up for launch of the core editor but the critical insight to use our existing projects comments surface was a last minute brain fart that came to us about 6 weeks ago. Things went pretty quick from there and we are moving extremely fast now that we have the right foundation. Excited times! |