A repair pass rerouted a 50 ohm RF net onto B.Cu with 22 mm of track and four vias because it used its own layer list instead of the caller's.
Recurring agent failure issue in BLPL (CK-Consulting)
What engineers report
A recurring agent failure problem in BLPL (CK-Consulting) that mostly hits the electrical engineer.
Failure pattern: agent / failure
Analyst note
From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 7-8 2026 (Nov 7 8:41 PM ET through Nov 8 7:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch overnight edition). Verified live 2026-11-08: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.
What it costs a team
Modeled annual cost
$30,000
For a team of 5
Prototype delay
3 days
Modeled schedule slip per occurrence
Time lost
240 min
Per engineer per month, about 1 incidents
How the cost is modeled
240 min/month × 5 engineers × 12 months = 240 hours × $125/hour = $30,000
A modeled estimate with medium confidence. Swap in your own team size and loaded rate to size it for your team.
Engineering tools that address it
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Evidence
More recurring errors in BLPL (CK-Consulting)
- "Every fab's quote form asks for copper weight, laminate, Tg, mask and silk colour, gold fingers, via protection, castellation" and minimum trace/space/drill. "None of the quoting sites read any of it from a KiCad project, so it was retyped by hand for every order or silently left to the fab's default." They added a fabrication block to project.yaml that writes the KiCad stackup and a board-specs.md into every release package.ECAD · impact 74
- kicad-cli pcb export odb defaults to precision 2, two decimal places of a millimetre. On their test board that moved a pad. They now force --precision 6 in the release package builder alongside CircuitHub packaging. A fab handoff file that looks complete but isn't the board.ECAD · impact 74
- Follow-up to #98. With mask or silk set to none, the gerbers dropped those layers, but kicad-cli's ODB++ export takes no layer selection and the native project (what CircuitHub reads) still had them enabled. A fab reading either would see mask while board-specs.md said none. Three handoff files, three answers.ECAD · impact 66
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