[lucasgerads]

There is definitely some truth to that. I am an EE and have played around with some of the prompt -> schematic tools. If I need 10mins to prompt it to draw the inverting op-amp amplifier circuit that I need. It is pointless. I can draw that in 10s. Also, ECAD software have design blocks and I have a design block libarary. So large parts of a schematic is really just two clicks for me already. If one wants to go into the PCB space with AI, probably the nicest application would be an AI librarian: Enforcing consistency in the parts library, finding datasheets, 3D models, simulation models etc. , listing alternative parts, checking if parts are close to their EOL. This should all be trivial for an AI. Drawing schematics is really a very small part of what an EE does day to day (at least for me).

[vablings]

I couldn't agree more. PDM is a really difficult challenge I do wish there was a decent PDM/PLM system that wasn't vendor lock in hell or a bajillion dollar or we upload all your data to our cloud^TM