alt Hacker News GPT-Synopsys brings together OpenAI frontier models with Synopsys' EDA technology and domain expertise, enabling the specialized model [to] directly operate Synopsys' tools. Engineers will delegate design objectives … with agents running tools, interpreting results, implementing changes, and iterating toward verified outcomes for engineer review.
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You can do this for any company now. Any company not announcing this to boost their stock is foolish, ride the train with the crowd.
GPT-Company name brings together frontier AI models with Company's XYZ technology and domain expertise, enabling the specialized model [to] directly operate Company's tools. Engineers will delegate design objectives … with agents running tools, interpreting results, implementing changes, and iterating toward verified outcomes for engineer review.
Eventually... But it is materially relevant if that happens in 2 years or 10.
While I think SWEs(yeah, not HW/chip but that's not my field) are cooked in 5 years, I think we'll be quite busy in the meantime fixing all the bugs that AI finds.
Chips design is expensive. Partly because of engineering costs, partly because of manufacturing costs.
If costs go down enough,because of LLM's and possible manufacturing innovations, more chips will be designed, so maybe this will partially offset job loses.
My observation is even if AI takes 80-90% of my job, the remaining 10% is still going to be more relevant to keeping the company going than other people's 100%.
I wish this was hubris, but no. I would genuninely be happy to not have to do other people's work for them on top of mine.
Exactly. How 'bout “economize” chip design by reducing / eliminating human chip designers ... Go figure.
Aren't hardware design issues incredibly costly? I highly doubt they're going to "dark software factory" it or they'll be eaten alive by failed launches, product recalls, lawsuits.
I worry that even the electronics industry is falling into the fear of being agentic or being left in the dust. AI slop is already weird for programs.. I wouldn't want that in hardware.
Most of them anyway, and the cutoff bar will continue to rise.
And then the shit won't work, and then they will hire them again lmao
The problem with "engineers will review" is: Critical review requires expertise. Expertise requires experience. Experience comes from building. Builders build because they like to build. So when builders are asked to do nothing but review, they will eventually tire of their jobs and leave, sometimes not just the job, but the industry entirely. The lower the quality of the agents' output, the faster this will happen.