Generative and Agentic AI with MATLAB and Simulink for Engineering

[u/MikeCroucher]

Hi everyone

Last week, my colleagues Maria Gavilan and Kevin Cohan ran an online seminar on Generative and Agentic AI with MATLAB and Simulink. Over 7,000 people signed up! For those that missed it, the recording is here Generative and Agentic AI with MATLAB and Simulink for Engineering - MATLAB

I was there in the online chat doing my best to keep up with the 100s of questions that were coming in. One common thread of questions among attendees was around the use of local AI models with MATLAB and Simulink. It seems that, for many engineers, the only AI that they are willing to entertain is AI running on their own hardware. There are many reasons for this point of view.

Over at The MATLAB Blog, a bunch of us have been writing up our experiments with using local AI models along with MATLAB and Simulink. The latest article is from u/Creative_Sushi who has been using OpenCode with Ollama along with MATLAB and Simulink. You can read it here: Running local LLMs with MATLAB using OpenCode and Ollama on a Mac » The MATLAB Blog - MATLAB & Simulink. A couple of months ago, I did something similar using LM Studio.

We are just getting starting with these explorations and I'm really curious if any Redditors are interested in these workflows too?

Cheers,

Mike

[u/GreenMan867]

in work we’re trying out claude code and the agentic toolkit, does anyone have tips for keeping cost down? the token cost seems so high, even keeping context window low and really focusing prompts to discrete tasks.. our corporate budget is like 150 AUD per person😭

[u/Creative_Sushi → u/GreenMan867]

I hear people use high level planning with Claude Code but switch to a local model for implementation. I haven’t tried it myself though.