Erin Price-Wright

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

I think that basically we already have all the building blocks.

My personal take is that the largest, like the last frontier standing is we don't have enough data, like on circuit boards specifically at the very least.

There's a lot of things that you can do and it will work, but the data is the thing that we need to generate as a society if we want circuit boards to be automated by AI.

The data exists, it's usually siloed into like, you know, the Apple's meta, like, SpaceX of the world, and they will not, like, obviously fork it over.

But individually, none of this is enough.

Like, you really need to pull it.

So we either, like, you know, great collaboration, everybody open sources their data, which I think is unlikely.

Or we find a way to basically produce enough data that the models get inherently better.

And if a new architecture comes out, amazing.

You can be more efficient and you can have less data.

That's my current take.

But there is another competing take, which is Lenny's side of the argument.

That's right.

Which...

A lot of these problems are really well-structured for Monte Carlo tree search reinforcement learning style, where you can basically formulate a problem with two players playing against each other and they get better just by nature of improving recursively.

I don't know.

Like I usually defer to his opinion.

So I will say that maybe there is a world where we don't need any more data and like the things are already on the table and we just need to kind of like tickle them the right way.

In the meantime, because this is an open question, we will focus on building the thing end to end and we will bridge the 10% however we need to.

But I'm very hopeful.

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