Security, science & hardware

Have an agent draft an electronics design from a short brief, and leave ordering and power-on to you

In its 9 Nov 2026 announcement, Anthropic said it asked Claude Fable 5.2, in a one-paragraph prompt, to design three electronic devices with circuit boards, 3D-printed enclosures, and software, and that a partner board house built the boards. The same article says people still handled assembly and testing, and that the three boards worked without electrical changes. Those are the publisher’s own claims and were not retested here. Readers should have the agent stop at design files; ordering, fabrication, and power-on stay with a person.