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Every other headline wants to tell you that AI is coming for your job. It makes for a great panic, but it’s the wrong frame. AI isn’t going to make engineers redundant. It’s going to make a handful of things we’ve spent our whole careers wrestling with redundant – and honestly, good riddance to most of them.
Everyone is vibe coding. So can you vibe debug actual hardware – hand an LLM a logic-analyser capture or a register dump and let it reason about what the silicon is doing? I tried it on real DSHOT traces and RP2350 register dumps. The results were equal parts impressive and alarming.
Is AI coming for the embedded engineer? I think that is the wrong question. Here is the honest, day-to-day version – where an LLM genuinely earns its keep on a real C firmware codebase, and where it falls flat on its face the moment hardware is involved.
