Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

This is not about replacing Verilog. It’s about evolving the hardware development stack so engineers can operate at the level of intent, not just implementation.

These start-ups, including Axiom Math and Harmonic, both in Palo Alto, Calif., and Logical Intelligence in San Francisco, hope to create A.I. systems that can automatically verify computer code in ...