Should I trust AI for energy modeling and analysis?

You either ignore it or trust it blindly, and you can sense that neither is really thinking. The tool is not something to believe in or reject wholesale. It is a fast modeler with no contact with the actual building, and knowing that is where good judgment starts. Let it do the heavy calculation it does well: running scenarios, crunching loads, exploring options you would never have time to model by hand. But keep your judgment on the assumptions and on the gap between the model and the real building, because that gap is where energy analysis goes wrong. A confident number is not a correct one. Only checking it against reality tells you which it is. So pair the tool's speed with your feet on the ground. Let it model, then walk the building and ask whether its assumptions actually hold here. Where they do not, trust your eyes over the output. That habit, not blind trust or blind refusal, is what makes the tool worth using.