Personally, I've found even the latest batch of agents fairly poor at embedded systems, and I shudder at the thought of giving them the keys to the kingdom to say... a radiation machine.
i am pretty confident they wont let claude touch if it they dont even let deterministic automations run...
that being said, maybe there are places. but this is always the sentiment i got. no automating, no scanning, no patching. device is delivered certified and any modifications will invalidate that. any changes need to be validated and certified.
its a different world that makin apps thats for sure.
not to say mistakes arent made and change doesnt happen, but i dont think people designing medical devices will be going yolo mode on their dev cycle anytime soon... give the folks in safety critical system engineering some credit..
I don't have the same faith in corporate leadership as you, at least not when they see potentially huge savings by firing some of the expensive developers and using AI to write more of the code.