WillNickols

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by WillNickols 9mo ago
All the dimensions are in mm by default, so 39 mm radius on a mug is about right. For all their flaws, the LLMs do usually provide reasonable dimensions.
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by WillNickols 9mo ago
The conversation itself is sent to the LLM in regular text, and in addition it sees the feature tree (also text) and often a screenshot of whatever the current model looks like. This is usually enough for the model to know what's going
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by WillNickols 9mo ago
Every time you put in a query, LAD takes a snapshot of the current model and stores it, so you can revert whatever changes the LLM makes if it messes up.
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by WillNickols 9mo ago
I think that would make a lot of sense for non-CAD images, but the particular task you described there is do-able in just a few clicks in most CAD systems already. I think the AI would almost always take a longer time to do those kinds of a
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by WillNickols 9mo ago
Would you use something like this if it worked well in Fusion 360? We chose to start with SolidWorks because when talking with people in mechanical engineering, almost everyone was using SolidWorks and no one even mentioned Fusion (despite
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by WillNickols 9mo ago
Thanks for the input! Haven't done much with Altium but it seems like you get at least somewhat of a boost for it being slightly more about the logic and less about the spatial reasoning. 2 things related to what you said I hadn't
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by WillNickols 9mo ago
Curious what you think is the best interface for it? We thought about this ourselves and talked to some folks but it didn't seem there was a clear alternative to chat.
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by WillNickols 9mo ago
Honestly, the out-of-the-box models aren't great at CAD. We were mostly trying to figure out (1) how well it could do with the best harness we could give it and (2) whether people would want and use this if it worked well.
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Show HN: AI in SolidWorks(trylad.com)
191 points by WillNickols 9mo ago|106 comments
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by WillNickols 11mo ago
Not yet - we need to change the header configuration for that to work (versus connecting to local models), but we'll have it available soon.
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by WillNickols 11mo ago
Nothing R specific. In my experience, Claude is pretty good about using tidyverse for everything. What was is flopping on for you? Our thought on not fine tuning models is that whatever comes out in 6 months is just going to be better than
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by WillNickols 11mo ago
FWIW there's a bunch of stuff Erdos has that Positron doesn't (including having solved Positron's top 5 open GitHub issues): 1. Remote development via SSH or containers 2. AI that can connect to ChatGPT, local models, or our
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by WillNickols 11mo ago
A bunch of specific things below, but the main point is that it integrates a bunch of features that data scientists use that don't come with Cursor. Specifics (mostly reproduced from above): 1. R/Python/Julia consoles accessi
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by WillNickols 11mo ago
Thanks for the suggestions - we'll definitely add those to the dev list. Also, the GitHub is https://github.com/lotas-ai/erdos (and it's on the download page but a bit small).
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by WillNickols 1y ago
Makes sense - we're planning to have "Rao rules" (essentially Cursor rules) out tomorrow, so you'll be able to include an instruction that it should always append to some file you have open. Hopefully it obeys that and t
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by WillNickols 1y ago
Thanks for the comments! We're working on the shortcuts but that should come soon. If you edit the code in the conversation before you hit run, it'll actually let you modify it and then run that code when you hit Run. (Try "
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by WillNickols 1y ago
It can, but it'll take more set up since there's a backend we have configured that does the actual LLM communication. You'd need to set that up internally for an on-prem deployment. Can you send us a message ( https:/&#x