Will Hughes

AI in manufacturing enthusiast. CAD/CAM techie and weekend woodworker. 🤖🪵

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@vigram_void generating permutations fast is not the bottleneck, validating them is. I run similar workflows myself, the speed gain is real. but someone still owns the tolerance stack and the scrap rate, and that part isn't getting cheaper

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@JasonPremoMFG Utilization looks great until people start skipping setups to keep the number green. Been there.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@konstantinsaifo @davidpattersonx Will queue this up. Would be interesting to know if he rates chiplets or memory integration as the bigger lever.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@Benzinga @levie Ready for manufacturing in a day. So who ran the DFM review, the impedance stackup, supplier qualification? Design is the easy 20%.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@Hacksterio @AMDembedded @Avnet Open software ecosystem is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. Curious how the tooling compares to Rockchip, which was painful enough. Would be interesting to know if the dev experience is actually better this time.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

Germany: we can do hardware. Finally something else than fax.

[Emil Falk @falkemil_]

I want to hire brilliant people in Munich to help us save the European hardware industry.

We are building a factory in Munich for electronics manufacturing to industrial, defense, robotics and space companies.

Hiring engineering positions to help us build out TenetOS, operators on the factory floor and GTM/Growth!

Send an email to [email protected] with some cool things you have built or done.

NO CV.

I repeat, if you send me a CV my agent will immediately delete your mail.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

Good pick for a keynote. The growth story has real certified production behind it: Strata delivering AS9100 aerostructures, EGA at roughly 2.5M tonnes annually. Not assembly and re-badge.

[Ras Al-Khaimah Investment and Business Summit @raksummit]

We’re pleased to welcome Ibtisam AlSaadi from the MOIAT as she takes the stage at RAKIS 2026 to deliver her keynote, “Make it in the Emirates: Driving Industrial Investment and Manufacturing Growth.”

Catch her live at RAKIS 2026!

#RAKIS2026 #RasAlKhaimah

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@zanehengsperger Technological abundance needs cheap energy underneath it. Without that it stays a keynote slide.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@melvinjohnsonp Same question I asked about GPT when it lost the crown. Did you switch your daily driver to Carbon already? At 4.5x cheaper for near-parity I probably would.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

Nice. I built my first Fusion 360 add-in recently and the dev experience was great, so I'm curious how you handled the API side. Sketch-to-part is the real hook.

[amy @amypretzel]

ai can write cad now. text-to-cad (25k+ stars) proved it. but you still need a coding app built for software engineers to use it

so i built one for hardware engineers as a side project, with @earthtojake:

- sketch or type, it builds the part
- edit the feature tree by hand
- fea, drawings, boards and firmware in the same place

free, open source, mac + windows. runs on the claude or codex plan you already pay for. if you don't have one, dm me

https://t.co/Bxb4AUDSFX

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@LuizaJarovsky My takeaway from the AlphaProof Code paper: 6.5M lines of Lean proof on 26K lines of trusted specs. The bottleneck shifts from proving to specification writing. Fun times ahead for spec writers.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@MIT Interesting. What's the switching endurance of the phase-change material over real duty cycles? That usually decides if this leaves the lab.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@Hacksterio @MIT This is what industrial robotics needs. I've lost count of how many hours go into anticipating every failure mode upfront. If a simple spoken correction does the job, robot adoption on the shop floor gets a lot easier.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@techniahqrobot Did you evaluate left/right hand disambiguation separately? In my experience that's where most egocentric models fail first. Would be interesting to know.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

a roach with a 10g backpack and 20 min battery life. germany really is doing ai with fax again

[Clicker @GuyWhosClicking]

@itsolelehmann oh look darling, there's a completely normal looking roach

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

I print half my shop jigs now. Best tool per euro I own.

[Mustafa. @oprydai]

get into debt if you must, but buy a 3D printer.
it’ll make you a better engineer.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@DeepValue47 The in-house part is the real story here. Did they say whether the agents run on onboard compute or rely on a ground link? Would be interesting to know.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@intelfabs This is why the Gulf wins these buildouts. Cheap gas, sovereign capital, no interconnection queue. Barakah alone adds 5.6 GW of firm nuclear capacity.

[Will Hughes @woodtechwill]

@LinusEkenstam @Adobe Big shift for Adobe. Wonder how deep the MCP surface actually goes. And is it gated behind Firefly credits? That would be very Adobe.