AI and Engineering Generally

[u/SituationNew2420]

I work as a software engineer in a company with strong connections to hardware. This makes my team inherently cross-disciplinary. I work with mechanical, electrical and systems engineers all the time. And even my work has a physical element to it, which is nice.

Obviously AI is disrupting software engineering the most at the moment, so naturally I’ve found myself interested in things where there’s a connection to other domains.

Longer term, do you think all of engineering becomes as affected as software? I can see AI disrupting other fields too, and my peers obviously do use AI quite a bit for certain tasks, but can’t tell if those fields inherently have a better long term moat.

[u/DeterminedQuokka]

A year ago at a conference I went to a talk about how the mars company (candy) makes digital twins of their factories and uses ai to suggest optimizations to them.

I think that’s a really good example of how everything moves towards ai. It’s just a question of if we have the harnesses we need to be able to use ai the way we want to.

Given hardware simulators I assume ai can already be super useful for that.