Engineering notes
August 2, 2026
How many reference circuits does it take to cover real schematic requests?
We planned on ~30 curated reference circuits covering most hobbyist schematic requests, then scored a 100-prompt corpus against them. 26% were fully covered, and one domain accounts for most of the gap.
August 2, 2026Generating KiCad schematics programmatically with kiutils: two things the docs won't tell you
Findings from a spike generating .kicad_sch files with kiutils: format-version management needs custom code, and symbols must be embedded in lib_symbols or your files won't travel.