[girvo]

Oh I'm well aware. It's lagging behind "pure" software, but is catching up.

The only thing I can see that acts as a bulwark is liability, bascially. The FW work I was doing requires a human and a large amount of careful review before acceptance. The "throw slop at the wall" that my current job is okay with won't fly there.

But there's _lots_ of FW jobs in consumer gear that is already filled with god awful slop, so maybe it won't take as long as I think.

[sitzkrieg]

i’m sure all auditing and qa reasons for human in the loop firmware development will magically go poof soon as well

[varjag]

Quite so. There's literally no moat that can withstand a prospect of 10x cost cut.