AI tracked down a sensor engineer, drafted a CAD model, and his bigger puppy pad is now in production
nikitabier · x · 2026-09-16
nikitabier shares a hands-on AI story: after getting a puppy that needs hourly potty breaks for up to six months, he found a moisture-sensor alarm pad that was too small. He asked AI to locate the engineer who built it; the engineer shared his China supplier and original order documents, and a bot drafted a larger version plus a CAD model—now being manufactured. His takeaway: software problems are solved; atom (physical world) problems are next.
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