I feel like the hard part is flashing the new firmware

I don't think that quote really supports coding and math being equivalent. To me, the quote provides an abstraction of math through a structuralist perspective. Language can also be viewed through this abstraction. I think coding could share the abstraction, but that doesn't make the three of these fields equivalent.

It'll be funny when someone's AI assistant buys them a different item than it said it would.

Anyone know if the paper was published?

Generating or augmenting data to train computer vision algorithms. I think a lot of defense problems have messy or low data