If you’ve spent time building embedded systems, you’ll know just how different it is from general-purpose software development. It’s not just the fact that you’re writing for a specific hardware platform, but you also need to worry about things like power constraints, memory limitations, timing edges, SDKs evolving (and sometimes breaking), datasheets that seem to grow thicker every year, and lots, lots more.

At Temboo, we’ve spent the past decade building products to help people navigate these challenges. We’ve worked across industries and across the ever-changing landscape of microcontrollers and peripherals. Through it all, one constant has been the fact the embedded development is inherently more difficult than web, mobile, or desktop development. This friction slows experienced developers down and creates barriers to entry for new developers.

And that brings us to today. We’re excited to introduce the Temboo Agent, a new AI-driven embedded programming agent that we’ve designed specifically to cater to the realities of building embedded systems.

“We believe embedded developers deserve dedicated AI tools.“

We built the Temboo Agent because we believe embedded developers deserve dedicated AI tools. It lives directly inside your IDE. It reads your project context, understands your SDK, parses your build errors, and generates real, usable embedded code. In short, the Temboo Agent is built for the specifics of the embedded hardware that you’re working with, not the general purpose programming world that most AI models assume.

Why We Built The Temboo Agent

Over the past decade, we’ve seen the same pain points arise again and again:

• Dev time gets consumed by boilerplate, configuration code, and peripheral setup.
• Endless hours are spent deciphering build errors and toolchain quirks.
• Developers bounce between forum posts, SDK documentation, datasheets, and old example projects.
• Confusion over SDK changes or differences between chip revisions get in the way of progress.
• And on and on…

In parallel, away from the embedded world, generative AI has gone from curious demo to genuinely useful pair programmer. LLMs now produce high-quality code on demand, collapsing hours of work into minutes and reshaping how people design, debug, and ship software. This is a truly amazing development, but the current crop of models quickly hit their limits when it comes to working with embedded systems. They don’t know your chip, they don’t know your SDK, they don’t know your peripherals, and they certainly don’t know your build environment.

“Embedded development requires AI tools that understand your hardware.“

Embedded developers deserve to benefit from the power of AI-assisted development, and embedded development requires AI tools that understand your hardware. That’s the foundation that the Temboo Agent is built on.

The Temboo Agent doesn’t just make guesses when generating code, because it knows your hardware and dev environment. It knows your SDK, it understands your build errors, it knows your chip’s capabilities, it knows what’s in your project and what’s not.

This is the core distinction. The Temboo Agent isn’t just another chatbot. It’s the beginning of a smarter, more capable embedded development toolchain.

What Can The Temboo Agent Do?

While on one hand we’re just getting started building out everything that we believe is possible in the world of AI-assisted embedded development, the Temboo Agent can already do quite a lot.

Hardware-aware code generation

Ask the Temboo Agent to configure a timer, initialize Wi-Fi, set up a DMA transfer, or build a FreeRTOS task structure, and it will produce runnable code using the correct APIs for your MCU and SDK version. It won’t hallucinate or go off topic – it just produces high-quality embedded code in seconds.

Build error correction

The Temboo Agent can read your build error logs, track down the underlying issues, and quickly give you suggested fixes for the problems at hand. Think of the Temboo Agent as an experienced pair programmer who never gets tired of doing the annoying things that used to slow you down.

Embedded systems guidance

The Temboo Agent can help you think through a new project or an existing problem, or point out the pros and cons with a direction you’re considering, all from within your IDE (with full access to your project context). This combination of embedded programming knowledge and project visibility gives the Temboo Agent the edge over general purpose programming tools, especially those based in the browser.

A seamless IDE experience

Because the Temboo Agent runs inside your IDE, you don’t have to tab-hop between your favorite model’s website and your preferred code editor. The Temboo Agent sees your code, accepts your prompts, and answers you in a way that keeps you focused on that task at hand.

This IDE integration is a major element of what sets the Temboo Agent apart – it enables our AI backend to produce better code and recommendations because it has the information it needs, and it enables you to stay focused on why you’re working in an IDE in the first place.

Where This Is All Going: The Future of AI-Assisted Embedded Development

The Temboo Agent is just the beginning. Our goal is to accelerate the evolution of embedded programming so that it becomes as accessible and efficient as web and mobile development.

We’re building towards a future where the boundary between ideas and working implementations starts to disappear. Whether you’re working in an existing codebase, or starting a new project, firmware won’t be something you grind through line by line, but something you shape, test, and iterate on with the help of an intelligent collaborator that understands your hardware, your constraints, and your embedded programming style. Debugging becomes less about hunting around in the dark and more about having a partner who can see the system (the hardware and the code) holistically.

“We want to enable dev teams to explore more ideas, more quickly, without the usual learning curves.“

We want to enable dev teams to explore more ideas, more quickly, without the usual learning curves. Knowledge that used to live scattered across docs or inside the heads of a few expert devs should become accessible to everyone. And hardware manufacturers should also benefit as the barrier to switching hardware platforms or trying out new peripherals should drop dramatically.

Our work is aimed squarely at accelerating this shift. We’re building toward a world where embedded developers can focus on creativity and problem-solving. The drudgery of dealing with boilerplate, SDK quirks and toolchain frustrations will be handled automatically.

We’re early on this journey, but the direction is clear and very compelling. We don’t see this merely as an incremental improvement in dev tooling, but rather as a completely new way to think about building embedded systems.

Try The Temboo Agent Today

The Temboo Agent is now available in early access for TI SimpleLink, Nordic, and ESP32, and we’d love you to try it.

We built the Temboo Agent because embedded developers deserve tools that understand the world they work in and the unique elements that go into bringing physical computing systems to life. We think this is the beginning of a much smarter embedded workflow, and we’d love for you to be part of shaping its future.