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When I talk to developers and dreamers, they all point to hardware-in-the-loop testing as the holy grail of firmware development. But HIL testing has limits. There are only so many boards, only so many engineers, and only so many tests you can think to run. When you design tests to debug and optimize a device, you're usually working from three things: datasheets, field logs, and engineering intuition. Embedder's next release will change what you can do with all three. 1) Hardware-in-the-loop testing. Embedder runs QA and optimization tasks directly on your bench, driving every instrument against a single run, so each test is captured from every angle. And it doesn't just run them: using native context and our proprietary SDK, Embedder hypothesizes, tests, and iterates on your boards, correlating what each instrument sees to pinpoint and fix issues. 2) Field data. Whether you run your own crash reporting or pull it in through an API, Embedder folds real-world crash data into its context, so tests reflect how your devices actually fail in the field. 3) Multi-agent architecture. To break the one-developer-one-board bottleneck, we've built multi-agent testing. On a single board, the agents iterate autonomously — running experiment after experiment and refining firmware between runs. Add more boards and they scale out in parallel, one agent per board. Either way, they work while you sleep. When devices fall short or degrade in the field, everyone in the business feels it. These features are built to help you ship products faster, and better.