> dubious applications of AI

Leaving aside the ethical aspects of using AI (not because they're not valid, because they're off topic for this discussion), in my line of work, the capabilities and productivity improvement of AI are staggering. Most of it is not writing the new code, which is but a small part of chip design, but everything else.

I can't give a concrete work example, but here is an experiment that I ran a month ago. https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/04/12/AMIQ-License-Key-Ge.... If it can do that, it's not hard to imaging similar use cases related to root causing complex simulation failures. It is frighteningly good at that.