Gary Marcus mocks viral claim of LLM-designed bridges: 'hundreds could die'
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-08
edandersen joked ("by funny I mean horrifying") that one day a bridge will collapse because an LLM did the design—or even just one part—over a CAD app's MCP server. Gary Marcus amplified the post. It was a sarcastic reply to a claim that "GPT-6 Astra is the new SOTA in agentic CAD, a true step change in mechanical design."
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