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May 24, 2028
In 1 year, 7 monthsWriting C code for hardware that will be debugged by better silicon.
Junior C coder (mostly chasing bit-flipping ghosts).
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Turning hardware specs into production-ready silicon firmware.
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compiles firmware directly onto blank silicon
You juggle firmware registers and hardware integration tasks. Soon, automated synthesis will just write the drivers for you.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still physically troubleshoot why the voltage regulator is actually getting hot.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Day 10
AI models start writing your boilerplate driver code.
Month 5
Cloud simulators replace most of your physical hardware testing.
Month 10
Software agents automatically interpret your logic analyzer waveforms.
Month 15
The system learns to fix its own edge-case bugs.
Month 19 · D-Day
Hardware engineers plug in chips and the firmware auto-builds.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 95.1%
2 minutes
Average build time
0.04
Bugs per line
Excessive
Coffee intake
Your severance
One free Raspberry Pi and a legacy debug cable.
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