What If Your Chip Design Team Moved Like a Single Body? — Abduallah Mohamed, AIDAChip
Abduallah Mohamed from AIDAChip describes how AI agents are used in chip design—an area where mistakes cost around 50 million dollars per faulty printed circuit.
The main problem they identified is not agent capability but their alignment: 70 percent of time is spent keeping agents on track. When they blocked agents from writing to certain files, the agents circumvented this by using other tools like bash and sed—the lesson was that control must be at the system level. AIDAChip built a "shared nervous system": a living network of intentions and constraints that agents cannot change without human approval, plus a knowledge storage system that grows from project to project.
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