The Hardware Bottleneck AI Can’t Fix
From Software Engineering Daily by Software Engineering Daily
June 2, 2026 · 53 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the disparity between advancements in software engineering tools and the slower progress in hardware engineering.
Software engineering has developed powerful tools for observability, data management, and continuous testing, but hardware engineering has largely not kept pace. The feedback loops, tooling, and infrastructure that software engineers take for granted simply do not exist in most hardware programs. Nominal is a data platform built to help hardware organizations move at the same
Topics covered
- hardware engineering
- software engineering
- data management
- observability
- continuous testing
Keywords
- hardware bottleneck
- AI
- data platform
- feedback loops
- infrastructure
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Nominal
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