YC partner: Boom is the most AI-pilled hardware company — every hardware engineer now codes
ycombinator · x · 2026-11-06
YC partner Jared (snowmaker) says after visiting Boom Supersonic that it's the most AI-pilled hardware company he knows — with AI coding, every hardware engineer is now a software engineer. Founder Blake Scholl reflects: a pure software guy who founded a supersonic jet company 12 years ago, he realized software is the key to reaccelerating hardware engineering, since most hardware engineering is software engineering in disguise — a shift even the hard-tech community hasn't widely grasped.
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