Source: Hacker News
Ask HN: Is building military hardware and healthcare the AI-proof?
As developing software as a skill becomes like flipping burgers in a fast food company, is building hardware for evergreen industries like military and healthcare the only escape for actual engineers, not prompters?Sure, it would be a lot more expensive to bring a product to market and sell, and more likely for a product to fail because of the long sale period. But at least you have a natural barrier then. You don't see some solo dev trying to compete with Apple in hardware, whereas in software nowadays there are billions of people who are your competition.
Key Points
- As developing software as a skill becomes like flipping burgers in a fast food company, is building hardware for evergreen industries like military and healthcare the only escape for actual engineers, not prompters?Sure, it would be a lot more expensive to bring a product to market and sell, and more likely for a product to fail because of the long sale period.
- But at least you have a natural barrier then.
- You don't see some solo dev trying to compete with Apple in hardware, whereas in software nowadays there are billions of people who are your competition.
Published: August 21, 2026 12:12 am
Source: Hacker News