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April 15, 2028
In 1 year, 6 monthsWriting code for chips that become e-waste in six months.
Senior Embedded Dev (still yelling at C++ compilers)
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Total hardware abstraction for the future.
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patches your bugs before the power cycles
You spend all day wrestling with memory leaks, register maps, and endless hardware debugging cycles.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still physically probe a trace when the signal is just wrong.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
Models ingest every datasheet and hardware manual in existence.
Month 4
Smart agents identify and fix your memory leaks automatically.
Month 8
Hardware emulators simulate your circuit boards with total accuracy.
Month 13
Synthesis tools write the drivers from simple requirements.
Month 18 · D-Day
The compiler now writes the machine code itself.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.1%
84 percent
Time spent reading datasheets
Excessive
Average caffeine-to-code ratio
High
Brick rate per project
Your severance
One soldering iron and a firm handshake.
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