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All we need is a genius, with unlimited claude and codex credit and he will replace Fusion 360 atleast in 3d printing and machining space It's so sad most guys

All we need is a genius, with unlimited claude and codex credit and he will replace Fusion 360 atleast in 3d printing and machining space It's so sad most guys aren't comming together to build some great CAD engine which open source really needs! Gimp is shame, photoshop is increasingly being lockdown and people who have smarts to fix that are doing nothing.

ezst 7mo ago
That people on this forum convinced themselves that it's a reasonable take to vibe code a useful geometric kernel is profoundly depressing.
- faangguyindia 7mo ago
  Just wait for sometime, there will be one. There are many geniuses on HN for tacking up challenge
  - fainpul 7mo ago
    So you think AI can do this – why exactly is a genius needed?
    - faangguyindia 7mo ago
      genius is needed in pilot seat to guide AI :)
  - WillAdams 7mo ago
    Vibe coding only seems to work, insofar as it does when the training data includes multiple exemplars of solutions to a given problem. As noted elsethread, there's only one geometric kernel which is decently far along and opensource and it's over 1 million LOC --- I doubt it's being included in any training data, and I doubt that an LLM could regurgitate such a large project which would then compile w/o errors and then work as expected --- the number of tokens required to get such a project to an initial state is a marked hurdle as well.
- stackedinserter 7mo ago
  Correct me if I'm wrong, kernel is already there, and it's decent enough. What's lacking is a good user interface to it.
  - progbits 7mo ago
    FreeCAD is perfectly good user interface for opencascade. The problem is that as your geometry gets more complicated you start running into the kernel limitations.
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- progbits 7mo ago
  Indeed. I would love for it to be true, but aside from opencascade^1 all the professional kernels are proprietary and not in the training set, so LLMs can't just regurgitate them. ^1: Which I really appreciate, but let's be real, it is far behind eg. parasolid.
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ezst 7mo ago

That people on this forum convinced themselves that it's a reasonable take to vibe code a useful geometric kernel is profoundly depressing.

faangguyindia 7mo ago
Just wait for sometime, there will be one. There are many geniuses on HN for tacking up challenge
- fainpul 7mo ago
  So you think AI can do this – why exactly is a genius needed?
  - faangguyindia 7mo ago
    genius is needed in pilot seat to guide AI :)
- WillAdams 7mo ago
  Vibe coding only seems to work, insofar as it does when the training data includes multiple exemplars of solutions to a given problem. As noted elsethread, there's only one geometric kernel which is decently far along and opensource and it's over 1 million LOC --- I doubt it's being included in any training data, and I doubt that an LLM could regurgitate such a large project which would then compile w/o errors and then work as expected --- the number of tokens required to get such a project to an initial state is a marked hurdle as well.
stackedinserter 7mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, kernel is already there, and it's decent enough. What's lacking is a good user interface to it.
- progbits 7mo ago
  FreeCAD is perfectly good user interface for opencascade. The problem is that as your geometry gets more complicated you start running into the kernel limitations.
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progbits 7mo ago
Indeed. I would love for it to be true, but aside from opencascade^1 all the professional kernels are proprietary and not in the training set, so LLMs can't just regurgitate them. ^1: Which I really appreciate, but let's be real, it is far behind eg. parasolid.

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