NetBurst, Bangalore and automated design

One reason that the Pentium 4 / NetBurst performs weak as measured in ops
per Hertz / oops per transistor
could be the use of automated design. A picture of the die simply looks
messy and unappetizing as compared
to other designs such as Athlon64.

The succesessor/ rejuvenated predecessor Pentium M "686" is as I understand
a manual design and
will require a larger investment in manpower per transistor.
Considering that future chips will have about a billion transistors this
could be a reason to
outsourcing design to lowcost nations such as India.

Now it could be simple to just regard automated design as simply
underacheiving but maybe it is
the way of things to come, like chess programs this kind of software could
reasonably evolve
and exceed the smartest of human practioners.

But becoming jobless due to homebred American AI is perhaps not as
threatening to engineering selfesteem
as having the job moved overseas ?