A composite 300 mm specialty fab redesigned yield-excursion investigations around six evidence-grounded agents while retaining human authority over equipment, recipes, lot disposition, corrective actions, and production release.
Hardware design has a rather unforgiving relationship with “almost right”. A chatbot can produce a slightly clumsy paragraph and survive the incident. A Verilog module that mishandles reset logic, races a signal, or politely misunderstands concurrency does not get partial credit from physics. It fails simulation, or worse, passes the wrong simulation and then becomes a very expensive archaeology project later in the design flow. ...