The bench ran itself overnight.
A hardware team was spending most of a day each week flashing boards, running checks by hand, and writing up what happened. None of it was hard. All of it had to be done, and done the same way every time, which is exactly the shape of work a person is worst at and a machine is best at.
We built the loop that does it. It runs unattended overnight against real hardware, captures its own evidence, and files a report in the morning. When it fails it says what failed and shows the trace, because a green tick nobody can audit is worth nothing.
- 01 Flash Load the build onto the board under test
- 02 Bench check Run the hardware suite against real instruments
- 03 Capture evidence Logs, traces and measurements, timestamped
- 04 File the report A pull request a human can review over coffee