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Do you really think you can design a tokamak Stellarator with pen and paper ?

No, but you can draw a very nice strawman on pen an paper.

The "topological optimization" button on their physical simulator,

A engineering tool for topological optimization is similar to "AI tools" only in the sense that a big amount of numbers are crunched together. Saying that they "are the same" is like saying that a shark is the same as a kangaroo.

Besides, for tokamak and others, I doubt that off-the-shelf tools were enough for them. I would bet that they had to build their own tools anyway.

Do you really think deep-seek can't use your COMSOL or Ansys multiphysics tool

A monkey can "use" those tools, as long as they have bright buttons and he's conditioned to press them for food. That doesn't mean that I would trust the results it comes with.

but let your local AI play for a day with a MHD simulator ... and the sky is not the limit.

The limit is still death, which can come much much faster than the sky.

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