I pointed my agent system at the physical world. It designed a jet engine concept end to end — closed the cycle itself, generated 561 B-rep solids, then checked its own work: 59 of 59 validation checks!
13.34 kN thrust. 165 kg dry. 21,000 rpm. Every figure published. more to come!!
the buckling line is the one that should stick, because it isn't a taste thing, it's a default. ansys topology optimization won't even accept an eigenvalue buckling system upstream — you get static structural, modal, harmonic, thermal, and it auto-inserts compliance as the objective with a mass constraint. fusion generative has a buckling safety factor but it's marked optional, step 7 of 8, so it's off unless you went looking for it, and lateral-torsional isn't a criterion in any of them. sigmund's group has been publishing on this since 2019, compliance minimisation converges on slender members in pure compression which is the exact geometry that goes unstable, and it gets dropped because the eigenvalue problem is expensive. a 50% mass number off one static load case is answering the question that wasn't binding.
The dangerous misconception is thinking “agent + CAD = engineering.” MCP can generate geometry; it doesn’t magically close requirements, load cases, thermals, CFD/FEA, materials, tolerances, manufacturability, failure modes, test and validation. Until the agent is inside that verification loop, you haven’t automated engineering , you’ve automated drawing things that look engineered.
Terminal-Bench 3.0 has been released! Claude Opus 5 Max takes the crown from GPT-5.6 Sol, achieving a SoTA score of 43.5% to Sol's 34.6%, with Fable 5 in 3rd within Sol's margin of error (34.1%).
Nobody denied the fact that OpenAI' latest line up is decent and in fact I would say they are enough for majority of daily tasks for most people! That being said, this is also true for Anthropic models! We are not discussing about a daily driver, anyone with half a decent serious experience in real engineering tasks would agree that Sol is not in the same league of Fable 5. Is it clear?
@KrisTalksAI There is zero doubt that local (consumer grade) and OSS models are absolutely necessary to push the frontier and to make intelligence available for everyone. However, regulation and safety for OSS can not be ignored at all.