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“ the code itself becomes an artifact of synthesis, not the locus of intent.” would not be unfamiliar to mechanical engineers who work with CAD. The ‘Histories
by ricksunny 9mo ago
“ the code itself becomes an artifact of synthesis, not the locus of intent.”
would not be unfamiliar to mechanical engineers who work with CAD. The ‘Histories’ (successive line-by-line drawing operations - align to spline of such-and-such dimensions, put a bevel here, put a hole there) in many CAD tools are known to be a reflection of design intent moreso than the final 3D model that the operations ultimately produce.
- crote 9mo agoCAD tools also really don't like changes in the history. A tiny change in one step can corrupt the entire model, because a subsequent step can no longer properly "attach" to a reference point which no longer exists. Fixing this in CAD is already a massive pain, fixing it with black-box LLMs sounds nearly impossible.
- ricksunny 9mo ago> Fixing this in CAD is already a massive pain, fixing it with black-box LLMs sounds nearly impossible. Please please don’t get me started..: https://github.com/ricksher/ASimpleMechatronicMarkupLanguage https://github.com/ricksher/ASimpleMechatronicMarkupLanguage