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January 5, 2028
In 14 monthsYou spend weeks debugging hardware ghosts only to replace them forever.
Senior Embedded Dev (C expert, hardware whisperer, coffee addict)
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Firmware development without the human drama.
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You write low-level C and assembly code for microcontrollers and deal with undocumented timing issues and hardware interrupts.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still physically feel when a circuit board is about to catch fire.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 2
Smart agents start cleaning up your messy legacy header files.
Month 3
Hardware simulators replace your tedious manual toggling of GPIO pins.
Month 6
Generative models draft your low-level drivers from simple hardware requirements.
Month 10
The system writes its own register configurations directly to the chip.
Month 14 · D-Day
The machine commits, compiles, and deploys without ever needing a developer.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.6%
40 weekly
Hours staring at oscilloscopes
too many
Average bugs per line
7
Years lost to datasheet reading
Your severance
A vintage soldering iron and a firm handshake.
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