Samsung thinks Claude Code can help it boost chip design — but admits the AI still makes some worryingly big mistakes
THE SO WHAT
Agentic coding in safety‑critical domains is already hitting the hard edge of trust—if a tool can silently reclassify real errors as “informational,” you cannot let it near unsupervised sign‑off. Treat these systems as aggressive copilots with strict guardrails, not autonomous engineers, and invest more in verification harnesses than in prompts.
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