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I Spent 1 Billion Tokens Making a Real Chip with AI — and Found Its True Limits

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I Spent 1 Billion Tokens Making a Real Chip with AI — and Found Its True Limits TL;DR: This is not "I prompted an AI to make a chip." It's the consolidated retrospective of two month-long projects — a SHA-256 crypto accelerator driven end-to-end from RTL to a 10-item signoff on an open-source EDA s…

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  1. 2026-08-27 16:38 · DEV Community — AI
    I Spent 1 Billion Tokens Making a Real Chip with AI — and Found Its True Limits

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