Erin Price-Wright

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

It's more AI being able to automate away the type of design that produces these very manufacturable outputs.

And then we have a lot of moonshot ideas about how you can improve the robotics on the line.

But the core goal is if the design is constrained, you can manufacture it at 100% automation today.

I don't even need to wait for robotics to get better.

The robots are already here.

I want to re-qualify that.

OK.

I think that software has incredibly good properties.

And I think that empirically, we are immediately observing this with tools like Cloud Code.

Basically, agents have been able to leverage the structured nature of code to do things that are not code-like at all.

You can basically use Cloud Code to do things that are completely orthogonal.

the initial comment that I made was basically, yes, like we need to take the current like set of software engineers that we have already in the United States and allow them to do more, like being able to be also electrical engineer.

But now like the total set of software engineers or people that are able to produce software is exploding.

And it includes agents.

So really, what you want to do is you want to give anything that has the ability to generate code the same ability to generate hardware.

That's really what you want to do.

And this will include greatly skilled SWEs that are building beautiful cathedrals on a PCB, like a lot of our employees, which I'm very fond of.

But it will also include a lot of smaller designs that are completely automated away by allowing an agent to use code to build the board itself.

The complexity of those designs today is limited.

But you can extrapolate the derivative and like get to where we want to be in like a year or two.

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