Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai

https://blog.adafruit.com/

69•semanser•1h ago

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kasabali•42m ago

What's the context here?

Neil44•36m ago

It seems there's suspiciously little context available, yet here I also am commenting on a 'vaguepost'. I wonder if one day AI will be able to filter out vagueposts from my browser along with ragebait and curiosity gap headlines.

abirch•17m ago

If AI does that it’ll make us 10x readers

throw_a_grenade•9m ago

It's deliberately written that way, by lawyers who are making sure they (Adafruit) won't accidentaly admit to something they didn't.

Neywiny•31m ago

Best I can tell they've taken down whatever it was, but most likely flux left some ways to get data out of their system that shouldn't have been and Adafruit leveraged that. Could have been in a good way like exposing false claims of architecture or security, or a bad way like revealing proprietary information on how the platform worked or looking at other peoples' projects (more than just seeing they could do that). If the blog doesn't come back up, I'll kinda assume they did something bad. I don't have sources but I've heard adafruit isn't the sweetest fruit in the tree...

throwa356262•40m ago

Had no idea about this. Now I do.

Thank you, lawyers. If you ever find yourself out of work use this as your reference to pivot to advertisement

jamesbfb•40m ago

Streisand in full effect!

bayindirh•14m ago

It's super effective!

antirez•38m ago

Note that this is not related to Black Forest Labs Flux, the image synthesis models builders, and is instead related to a PCB AI authoring product called Flux.ai.

justinclift•33m ago

Thanks, that name was indeed making me wonder what's going on with the BFL people. :)

suncemoje•31m ago

Exactly, these vectors point in very different directions!

Trung0246•2m ago

Also not related to https://fluxkeyboard.com/

luma•37m ago

Flux.ai offers a PCB design solution which is a clear interest for Adafruit. Anyone have any idea what this is about?

tecleandor•18m ago

Flux just got funding from Bain and others, and it feels like Adafruit was preparing a post about it. Maybe they contacted Flux to confirm some info and they freaked out?

I can't find in archive.org if they had a previous post about it.

Also, seems like there a good bunch of complains in Reddit about Flux and its billing...

https://old.reddit.com/r/PCB/comments/1t476x4/warning_fluxai...

8cvor6j844qw_d6•18m ago

https://archive.ph/g5JHr

As of 2026-06-02T11:09:16+0000

karmicthreat•7m ago

Adafruit probably did a review of AI PCB tools. I've used Flux.ai before; it was a pretty bad experience. After about 50-100$ in tokens a couple of times, I couldn't get more than a couple of simple components on the schematic. And not in sensible positions.

The product just grinds tokens for little return, in my opinion. I had far better luck wiring together KiCad MCP, SKIDL. There are some AI-driven autorouters out there now. Placement is probably the big issue that needs to be solved now. I could only get about 80% of what I wanted together with my hacky workflow.

embedding-shape•1m ago

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inshane•3m ago

As an electrical engineer who has tried to use it multiple times, I think Flux is an absolutely awful product. No surprise at all that they want to sweep details about their “intellectual property, commercial traction and user base” under the rug.

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