AI Will Eat Simulation Software (and this may be bad.)

My lab runs on simulation software. COMSOL for finite element modeling. Lumerical and Tidy3D for photonic FDTD. Sonnet and sometimes Palace for microwave circuits. We design quantum devices — mechanical resonators, superconducting circuits, photonic waveguides — and before anything gets fabricated, it gets simulated. "An hour of COMSOL can