Put the agent inside the project's existing authority structure: bound its task and inputs, classify the workflow, retain provenance, keep acceptance criteria and safety decisions outside it, and route every influenced safety work product through named verification.
AI can generate verification artefacts and useful findings, but a second model does not establish independence. The argument depends on independent sources, oracles, responsibility, retained evidence and acceptance authority around the AI activity.
Treat an AI engineering system as a software tool and classify its intended use and complete workflow. Tool Impact becomes TI2 when its output can introduce or fail to detect an error in a safety work product; the independent verification chain then determines Tool error Detection.
Measured LLM serving on a consumer RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB in a Dell PowerEdge R740: engine comparison, prefill against decode, the concurrency knee, what a full attention cache costs, and a hardware thermal slowdown that default chassis cooling never reported.