I think there’s a lot of people out there who don’t want to believe written communication skills like these are as important as raw technical skill.

It’s the “embedded” part that people struggle with.

I can find systemd script gremlins all the live long day.

I can’t find anyone who can write device drivers for custom peripherals, then hook them to user space utilities in a sane way.

And embedded Linux!

I’ve had a hell of a time finding good embedded Linux devs.

I got insanely lucky to hire two this year.

Didn’t everyone kind of migrate to more capable chips like ESP32 and STM32 in the intervening decade since Arduino got big and commercial?

I for one really like developing and co-managing specs with an LLM.

I think it’s a great conversational tool for evaluating and shaking out weak points in a design at an early phase.