Erin Price-Wright

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The a16z Show · Designing the Physical World with AI · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

And so you basically build a compounding interest.

Also, if you become the rails that everybody can design for free on, that is data that comes your way.

And as long as you give enough incentives and say, hey, I'm going to manufacture in the US at a cost competitive with Asia, which is unheard of effectively, and you can do it profitably, which is very important, you will be able to actually generate the amount of data that makes the model just skyrocket in accuracy.

So this is like where we want to eventually go.

So I have two answers.

Like we have a ton of simulation already because our world is made for that.

Like we've had tools in like electrical engineering, like spice at the schematics level.

Um, and then like, uh, you know, electromagnetic simulation kernels, um, like open EMS on the open source or like answers on the like actual board level.

Uh, both of these things exist and are used in the industry and are very important.

I think that the way that we currently use simulation is to give a grounding to the model if there is like some reinforcement learning in the loop.

Like you basically can build a circuit and it's very easy to determine whether or not that circuit is correct without relying on a golden reference.

Like I blessed this specific configuration.

You can build it in many different ways.

As long as you achieve your output, you're good.

So simulation in that case,

Very important.

We have it.

We will continue to use it.

The thing that I am very hopeful for is that electrical engineers today do not, most of the times, rely on pure simulation any time that they build a board.

They have a really good internal intuition for why the design is done in a certain way.

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