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John Lauer First AI PCB with Grok: clip 2, the board that wasn't Grok's 7d92f9e 6d ago
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 "video": "/adom/grok-bridge/render/first-ai-pcb/clips/02-not-grok.mp4",
 "title": "Clip 2: the board that wasn't Grok's",
 "poster": "/adom/grok-bridge/render/first-ai-pcb/clips/02-not-grok.jpg",
 "chapters": [
  {
   "t": 0,
   "title": "The finished board"
  },
  {
   "t": 12.2,
   "title": "Where did it come from?"
  },
  {
   "t": 21.9,
   "title": "Grok owns up"
  },
  {
   "t": 29.3,
   "title": "From scratch"
  }
 ],
 "captions": "WEBVTT\n\n00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.400\nTwenty-five minutes later, Grok reports a\nfinished board.\n\n00:00:03.610 --> 00:00:11.950\nClean electrical and design rule checks,\nall 62 pins matched, 4.98 V out, on a 28\nby 20 mm board.\n\n00:00:12.180 --> 00:00:15.950\nBut the numbers match our own buck\nexactly, down to the silkscreen.\n\n00:00:16.150 --> 00:00:18.250\nSo we ask where each value came from.\n\n00:00:18.460 --> 00:00:21.750\nGrok checks its own build trail and gives\na straight answer.\n\n00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:23.450\nIt did not design this board.\n\n00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:29.150\nA copy of our KiCad molecule was already\non its shared computer, and it re-exported\nthat.\n\n00:00:29.350 --> 00:00:38.750\nSo we ask again, from scratch: a new\nfolder, the TI datasheet, its own math,\nits own placement and routing, and no\nlooking at the old design.\n\n00:00:38.970 --> 00:00:40.920\nGrok agrees, and starts over.\n"
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