AI-generated designs can look convincing. Hardware, however, lives in the real world: it is dropped, heated, loaded, assembled, and touched by people.
What AI often misses
- Load paths and stress concentration.
- Fasteners, hinges, ribs, clips, and interfaces.
- Manufacturability and tolerances.
- Material behavior under heat, fatigue, and impact.
- The way people actually use the object.
AI should be treated as an explorer, not as the final authority. A useful workflow creates candidates, reviews risk with physical tools, and leaves final decisions to humans.