- Quilter’s AI built a dual-PCB Linux computer in just a week
- The system booted Debian on the first attempt with minimal human assistance
- Engineers only spent 38.5 hours, while AI did most of the design
Los Angeles-based startup Quilter has unveiled Project Speedrun, a Linux computer built entirely with the help of AI.
The machine includes 843 components across two PCBs, and the team designed and assembled it in just a week.
Remarkably, the computer booted Debian on its first attempt and required only 38.5 hours of human intervention.
Training for precision, not imitation
The performance of this device stands in stark contrast to traditional workflows, which typically require around three months of expert human labor to complete a similar project.
AI handled the iterative design, execution, and cleanup phases that normally hamper engineers’ creativity and slow development times.
Quilter trained its AI differently than large language models such as GPT-5 or Claude.
Instead of studying human-designed boards, which often have errors, the system learned by optimizing the physical laws governing circuit design.
This approach prevented human limitations from limiting its capabilities.
By focusing on physics-based optimization rather than imitation, AI has proposed new component configurations and layouts.
In theory, it outperforms human designers in efficiency and innovation, although engineers still oversee the process.
Their role has shifted toward supervision and creative refinement rather than repetitive execution.
By removing manual bottlenecks, engineers can iterate faster and explore more experimental designs.
The traditional three-step workflow of setup, run, and cleanup often introduces errors at runtime, which then require additional human correction.
Quilter’s AI removes much of this friction, allowing small teams to complete complex desktop designs in a fraction of the usual time.
The result is a project that provides a fully functional system while reducing human workload, which could lower barriers for startups creating mobile workstations and custom mini PCs.
Quilter CEO Sergiy Nesterenko envisions a future in which AI designs not only match human engineers, but can “come up with better circuit board designs than humans have ever tried to do.”
Although Quilter’s approach can accelerate innovation, its long-term reliability on more complex systems has not yet been proven.
Via Tom’s material
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