Erin Price-Wright

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1,223 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5 Aug

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

Like, I'm just going to spend a little bit more time designing it.

And this is like very cultural.

And like, I think that what is missing, at least in the circuit board, is like this very visceral connection.

And I don't know that you can just like artificially manufacture it or, you know, hire your way into it or...

pull people out of retirement.

I think that the only way is through at this point.

And so you basically need to find a very cheap way to generate these DFM-ready designs.

And Claude doesn't care if you bash it and say, yes, this is good, but make it more manufacturable.

Make it more manufacturable.

Or you say, hey, these are...

like 150 checks, go through all of them and painstakingly change the artifact until it's easy for me to make it.

And then, of course, there are very smart people already.

All the contract manufacturers for PCBs in the US are very talented.

Actually, the capabilities of contract manufacturers in the US are super high because they only bid on military contracts, which require the highest possible capabilities.

But what you want to build is like this new set of mass production capabilities, which has been kind of evaporated by the industry because the economics didn't make sense.

And we are betting on doing it by like teaching the designer, which in this case is not a human necessarily, to do it for you.

For me, I feel this pain personally.

I want to be able to spin up a hardware company the same way that my friends spin up B2B SaaS.

You should be able to say, I want to do something that's considered very hard and just go and do it.

I think that the second order effects are, today we have what is effectively like the equivalent of curing cancer, like happening in artificial intelligence.

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