Asked for a DC-to-AC converter with an ESP32 and a 24 V battery, the AI board compiler wrote a correct spec but built a board with 2 open connections and a DRC error. The LM2596 leads pointed at the board edge, and three retries only grew the board to 139 x 80 mm.
Recurring agent failure issue in si-eda (srinivasan-fh)
What engineers report
A recurring agent failure problem in si-eda (srinivasan-fh) that mostly hits the electrical engineer.
Failure pattern: agent / failure
Analyst note
From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 8-9 2026 (Nov 8 8:41 AM ET through Nov 9 6:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-09: 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
No engineering tool profile lists this error yet. Browse tools that connect to si-eda (srinivasan-fh).
Evidence
More recurring errors in si-eda (srinivasan-fh)
- Asked for relay switch boards with no MCU, the AI board compiler pulled the button up to the board's 12 or 24 V VIN and switched it to GND, even on an optocoupler-isolated board, which joined GND_IN to GND. The fix adds a VCC_IN pin for the controller's 3.3 or 5 V and returns the switch to GND_IN.ECAD · impact 74
- Designing a full 230 VAC off-line supply through the MCP tools surfaced nine bugs: placement ignored mains and HV net-class clearances, the router double-counted class extras so mains nets could not route, a 2.5 mm track crossed a THT pad, DIP and header packages ignored pitch above 2.54 mm giving the wrong land pattern, and thermal analysis sent every watt into the board.ECAD · impact 74
- Adding a second label silently joined two nets, so sch_wire and pcb_net now refuse a pin already on another named net.ECAD · impact 66
Sourced from public community reports. Costs and delays are modeled estimates, not measurements. Know a better source or a fix? Tell us at hello@productflo.io.