# Physics as Infrastructure for the AI Era

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Podcast: [CDFAM Computational Design Symposium](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cdfam-computational-design-symposium-7077587)
Published: 2026-09-17T13:53:22+00:00
Episode link: https://www.designforam.com/p/physics-as-infrastructure-for-the
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CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Washington DC 2026 Rik Baruah · Intact Solutions AI is reshaping engineering as it drives demand for surrogate models, large design studies, and agentic workflows that require automated simulation loops at scale. These pipelines collide with two realities: geometric representation is fragmented throughout the hardware lifecycle (from CAD to point clouds), and traditional FEA, reliant on conformal meshing and manual preprocessing, treats human intervention as a core requirement. This brittle paradigm resists automation. Scaling simulation for the AI era is fundamentally an infrastructure problem. Using immersed grid methods, Intact natively ingests any geometry representation without preprocessing, exposing physics as an API-first callable function. We demonstrate how this architecture powers the emerging “engineering-as-code” stack through automated DOE pipelines and LLM orchestration via MCP across concept, manufacturing, and deployment. Links Talk page with full transcript Watch the talk on YouTube Cite this talk Search the full text of every recorded CDFAM presentation This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.designforam.com

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