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placard (tocksin)ECADConfidence: Medium

The main board's DRC rules had clearance 0, track width 0, hole-to-hole 0.25 and silk-to-pad 0 before a Claude Code session set them above PCBWay's 4-layer minimums; any DRC run before that was checking against nothing. The follow-up, #156, reached 0 errors after Justin moved copper off NPTH holes and the bottom edge by hand.

Impact Analysis

Persona
Electrical Engineer
Team Size Impact
5x Multiplier
Prototype Delay
3 Days
Est. Annual Cost
$30,000
  • 1 user · 1 month240 min
  • Rest of team960 min
  • Rest of year13,200 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $30k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Oct 28-29 2026 (Oct 28 8:41 AM ET through Oct 29 early-morning Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-10-29: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.