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Your job has an expiration date
October 30, 2028
In 2 yearsYour schematics are just training data for our infinitely faster design engine.
Senior Hardware Dev (mostly Verilog, emotionally sleep-deprived).
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Designing motherboards in nanoseconds, not months.
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optimizes logic gates to zero heat waste
You draft complex hardware architecture and verify logic gates. Your work is waiting for silicon-level automated synthesis.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still explain why the board melted during the final thermal stress test.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
AI flags logic errors in your code before you save it.
Month 5
Neural nets take over PCB layout and component placement tasks.
Month 10
System architecture is generated from high-level natural language requirements.
Month 16
Digital twins replace expensive physical board bring-ups and debugging.
Year 2 · D-Day
Silicon design is fully automated by autonomous hardware-generation agents.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.8%
2 weeks
Average design cycle
0.01 percent
Bug probability
too much
Coffee consumed
Your severance
A one-way ticket to a firmware legacy maintenance project.
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