u/Barnowl93

Hi all,

I do a lot of work with academic and industry partners in engineering applications.

Therefore I end up having a lot of conversations with people around agentic AI for engineering. Specifically using agents as orchestrators for engineering tools (via MCP) .

I find that a lot of folks in the academic space (especially early careers) do not value agentic AI much... Some have still notions of chat bots. Meanwhile industry folks tend to be a lot more cutting edge and enthusiastic about it.. Very much a go go go mentality.

Is that something that you've seen too? How are agents perceived in your space?

A couple of days ago, there was this post on people who are using LLMs instead of controllers. Obviously, that's a terrible idea (even for a tech-bro!).

In the past few months, I've been working a lot with agentic AI alongside MATLAB and Simulink (using the MCP server & more recently the Toolkits). Granted, mostly for system-level stuff & given system architecture and requirements.

Currently playing around using Claude code + MCP server with MATLAB and Simulink for exploring different control strategies for a given problem-- (i.e., Claude code as an orchestrator with MATLAB & Simulink still doing the "proper" work).

I've found this approach quite good *given user knowledge, discipline & imposed structure*. Is that something others have experimented with? What's your experience been like?