There is a “blue collar dev” market. I dated a “web developer” who worked for the county. She used a Photoshop like tool to update the layout of an intranet, a

There is a “blue collar dev” market. I dated a “web developer” who worked for the county. She used a Photoshop like tool to update the layout of an intranet, and occasionally straighten some PHP. She knows nothing of computer science, just the tools she was trained on. She knew nothing about how the hardware works, that RAM and SSD were different types of memory or which situations make one preferable to the other, cause that was already figured out in the tooling. There are a lot of people who work like that and call themselves software engineers. We’re ultimately trying to make hardware do something, but rather than that, we invented more ornate interfaces to the same old hardware for … jobs. A hardware based future where the onboard ML chip can generate a AAA game or Pixar level media will happen. Because then they don’t have to pay a bunch of coders or artists. Greers “program the perimeter, not the area” comes to mind. Most software is simple logic and network effects. As our manufacturing process allow us to make customizable silicon from step 1, why not listen to Greer, bake the best perimeter for a task into hardware?