If you guys have not tried AI for development I suggest you do. In the last 6-7 months it has greatly improved to the point I have done entire projects without writing a line of code.
What this means is that Mbed, arduino, and other such "easy build" systems will be replaced with AI. For example, I hated Zephyr RTOS because of the device tree mess, which in my opinion was a big design and implementation mistake. However with AI it is no longer a barrier. Basically I tell AI to start me a zephyr project, give it a text file with the pin assignments and a few minutes later I have hardware up and running. AI does everything from installing Zephyr, configuring device trees, building, flashing, etc. Basically AI 3 months ago was at the level of a college intern, today it is at the level of a college graduate with a couple years experience. It still makes mistakes, and goes off down rabbit holes. However, with some supervision and clear instructions and enabling it to see its own errors it can get the job done. Also another great thing is that it knows git. I no longer have to look up git commands, I just tell AI what to do. I personally thought about learning Rust awhile back, but quickly realized it was a waste of time. With AI the programming language is no longer an issue. That is AI can check C code for memory safety and do everything Rust provided, even translate C to Rust. As such AI removes the "coding" part of development and forces us to focus more on requirements and test cases. I have been thinking about using AI to reverse engineer some 8051 assembly on car computers. However it is almost a moot point... Trampas On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 8:51 AM Pete Soper via TriEmbed < [email protected]> wrote: > Arm is withdrawing support in July. > > https://os.mbed.com/blog/entry/Important-Update-on-Mbed/ > > Pete > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: https://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > Searchable email archive available at > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >
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