open-condenser-mic had silkscreen over vias on five items, back through v3.6, and KiCad's DRC never flagged it. The vias are tented, so DRC treats silk over them as fine, but the ink over a drill still gets lost, and references like U3 and TVS2 lose part of a character. The author wrote pcb/check_silk.py, which turns every silk item into polygons and fails on overlap with a via or a pad's mask opening, and runs it in CI after the net-class check.
Recurring agent failure issue in open-condenser-mic (koshizuow)
What engineers report
A recurring agent failure problem in open-condenser-mic (koshizuow) that mostly hits the electrical engineer.
Failure pattern: validation / failure
Analyst note
From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 10-11 2026 (Nov 10 8:41 AM ET through Nov 11 7:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-11: 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.
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Evidence
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