swyx says Flow is doing for hardware engineering what Git and GitHub did for software, aligning thousands of stakeholders on complex, irreversible, high-value pipelines from cars to rockets.
The background post says Flow raised a $50M Series B at a $750M valuation and is now used for requirements and verification by Anduril, Joby, Stoke Space, Rivian, and General Motors PPU, among others.
It argues AI agents will soon move from integrating hardware engineering work to doing it.
Flow is doing for hardware engineering what Git+GitHub did for software engineering. It's enabled so much acceleration due to aligning thousands of stakeholders for complex, irreversible, high value pipelines from cars to rockets.
You cannot go back to spreadsheet_final_FINAL_v23 once you've been in Flow.
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Flow has raised a $50M Series B at a $750M valuation, co-led by Antonio Gracias (Valor) and Gavin Baker (Atreides) with Sequoia Capital, Roelof Botha (SpaceX, Block), and more. When I became a mechanical engineer, I wanted to invent. In reality, 90% of the day to day execution work (CAD, excel, sim) was digital manual labour. That’s about to flip. The engineer’s role will change more profoundly than at any point since the invention of CAD, with humans focusing on invention, architecture, tradeoffs and judgement calls, and agents taking the grunt work. Anduril, Joby, Stoke Space, Rivian & many more - Flow is now the default platform for requirements and verification for frontier hardware teams. But it’s not just next-gen anymore. Industry giants including General Motors PPU and Volkswagen & Rivian’s joint venture (RV Tech) are reshaping their core development practices with Flow’s AI. The revolution is just starting. Models are getting better quickly at CAD, analysis, simulation, and tool use. In the next year, AI will move from integrating the work to doing the work. One day, this shift won't just enable us to iterate faster, it will enable us to design a class of products that we could not have dreamt of before. We’re hiring.
Source: swyx · x.comPublished · added here
