ChipAgents Launches Agentic Foundation for Chip Design

The No AI Slop manifesto, introduced by Dex in the closing keynote at AIE CODE after cosignatures from many conference speakers, reached the front page of Hacker News. The authors say it is meant as a practical tool for workplace discussion, with the full text, cosignatures and edits open for comment. The same news roundup notes llama.cpp and ggml reaching 1.0, with 35 deprecated functions removed from llama.cpp's public header, and SGLang also announcing 1.0 at the SGLang Summit.

ChipAgents positions itself as an agentic foundation for semiconductor design, offering full-flow autonomy for digital and analog chip design and backing from Meet IC-star to speed the path to tapeout. The company cites 200+ semiconductor enterprise deployments, a 50% design cycle reduction, a 20,000+ global user community and 40% annual LLM spending savings. It also advertises SOC 2 Type II compliance, saying sensitive design IP stays where it belongs.