Unlike software product development, even when using a foundries chip manufacture requires 7-8 figure (USD) development budgets. That is per iteration. Unlike JS development there isn't massive volumes of internet resources to train LLMs on to produce usable RTL, etc code.

Of course it has to be another article about "AI". It wouldn't be on HN if it's not about "AI". /s

Interesting, I thought(from the title) this would be about analogue vs digital designers. But the article is written in the context of a "fully digital" chip (i.e the analogue stuff is abstracted away, all chips are analogue at the end of the day).

"Fullstack chip designers" exist in the mixed-signal world. Where the analogue component is the majority of the chip, and the digital is fairly simple, it's sometimes done by single person to save money. At least it was definitely a thing in the late 00's and early 2010's in small fabless design centers. Not sure about nowadays.