On The Vergecast: how AI is reshaping car development, from design to production

The Vergecast episode featuring automotive and tech journalist Tim Stevens explores how car companies are adopting AI to speed up parts of vehicle development, including model-making and wind-tunneling. Vehicle creation currently takes five years or longer.

LLMs (large language models, AI systems that understand and generate text) could help accelerate the car design process, though Stevens raises concerns about whether companies will ultimately replace human workers with AI despite their stated intentions not to do so.

The episode also covers competing AI coding tools Claude Code and Codex, Anthropic's relationship with the US government, conditions at OpenAI, and whether recent corporate layoffs attributed to 'AI efficiencies' are genuinely driven by AI adoption.