Fable wrote a program that solved a hard board routing problem for his hardware product

SPLIT 1 of 1 taken: Fable wrote a Python program that solved a hard board routing problem for his hardware product (firmware diagnosis episode in same comment skipped, analysis only).

How it works

He hands over the routing problem
Fable writes a Python program for it
The program solves the routing

Why it’s worth knowing

The model wrote a solver for a problem that had resisted normal attempts.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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