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Ah-ha, now there's an interesting use case. I've had occasion in the past to work on PCB design - to be clear I didn't do the design myself, I have no idea wtf I'm doing there, but I'm capable of reading spec sheets and soldering - and when I had to sub in components, I managed to find what I needed by filtering down for specs on DigiKey using their search. I think an LLM could have saved me a bit of time there if I could've just fed it the BOM and asked for alternatives, and over the course of all the subs I had to do for the particular project I'm thinking of (it was during Chinese New Year so it was tough getting answers from suppliers) that would have added up.