    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.

“Agents will do all the engineering work. Engineers will delegate and review.” Lol, no, what the engineers are gonna do is get laid off.

▲ segmondy a minute ago | parent | next [-]

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.

▲ oblio 3 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug

▲ 01100011 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	throwaw12 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> we'll be quite busy in the meantime fixing all the bugs that AI finds. Maybe that's the job of software engineering moving forward. Client: Hey, we have got these 125 microservices created by our agents and for the last 25 days they got stuck and can't add any new feature without breaking things, can you take this? Eng: Sure, lets sign a 24 month contract, my rate is 250$/hr Client: Sounds good

▲ DivingForGold 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Exactly. How 'bout “economize” chip design by reducing / eliminating human chip designers ... Go figure.

▲ petra 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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wg0 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

For each Design Engineer, there are 3 Design Validation Engineers because going to fabrication is very expensive and it is unlike software where you can just do a git push and wait for the CI/CD pipeline to deploy code within minutes at no additional costs.

So let's see.

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jacquesm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The wish granting machine won't need the engineers for that. You'll just end up paying for the devices.

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bossyTeacher an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> more chips will be designed, so maybe this will partially offset job loses.

This is HN mentality. But it is not how it always works. The first thought isn't we can make more money tomorrow by building more faster. It is we can make more money today by laying off all the people that we don't need now. Short-termism is the rule.

	▲	ericd 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I think that’s more the norm in stability, where the economy when not a lot is happening/changing/improving, and so the economy is focused on efficiency as a method of competition. We are squarely not in efficiency mode right now, we’re in explore as fast as possible mode, as a lot of old underlying assumptions have changed, and there’s a huge amount of work to be done in reworking everything for the new assumptions. That means lots of opportunities, lots of money flying around, and bean counters getting outcompeted by people who’re focused on doing new things. Being too conservative does not serve you well in this regime. My two cents, anyway, I don’t think overall massive job losses are on the menu anytime soon, but massive job displacement/swapping, very likely.

▲ p-e-w 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Most of them anyway, and the cutoff bar will continue to rise.