Scrutinize, double scrutinize and triple scrutinize each and every engineer, especially the dead wood at Grade 10 and above. Most of them are needless overheads and only serve to drag the company down.
This is the ERA of AI assisted development. Leverage AI and eliminate DEAD WOOD.
From my LinkedIn feed:
I used Claude Code to create a new HDL and vibe coded a compiler in a couple of weeks of my spare time. (Yeah very little left after a busy day at work ;-) ) Now I am very certain say 80% likelyhood we won’t need half of design or verification engineers in max two years from now. I think we’re going back to a full stack frontend engineer model again. For a medium complexity accelerator chip, you need 1 architect, <10 AI native frontend engineers (doing design, verification, synthesis, timing,) 2 verification/emulation specialists for integration testing. I don’t know enough physical design to predict there.