YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design

I don’t mind LLMs in the ideation and learning phases, which aren’t reproducible anyway. But I still find it hard to believe engineers of all people are eager to put a slow, expensive, non-deterministic black box right at the core of extremely complex systems that need to be reliable, inspectable, understandable…

You mean, like humans have been for many decades now.

Edit: I believe that LLM's are eminently useful to replace experts (of all people) 90% of the time.