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by dofm 23d ago
Controlling what users and customers do with API calls to closed weight models feels constraining, and there’s a role government can play here to normalize the fact that access to intelligence that was trained on broad public access data s
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by dofm 23d ago
> but for me it has been quite hard to get the model to understand what exactly I want modeled I like your approach so much more and I wish you the best of luck with it, but I think this is the kind of fundamental flaw with text-to-CAD
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by dofm 23d ago
No, the comparison is not apt with PHP (which I use on the daily and have done for twenty years). It's a bit more like comparing CSS with a subset of JavaScript that can do the same tasks. OpenSCAD isn't, really, a proper CAD pack
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by dofm 23d ago
You surely don't think you can scale from that to more complex parts.
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by dofm 23d ago
I did not know that. Very good decision!
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by dofm 23d ago
It's a slight overstatement, maybe. But in the general case the answer to your question is yes. I believe OpenSCAD is absolutely not the right tool for functional parts. It has fundamental weaknesses. You can use it for basic shapes
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by dofm 23d ago
Rudidas would definitely be a worse name. Though I'd be surprised if an Amazon Marketplace knockoff brand is not already using it.
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by dofm 23d ago
> The whole point of the MS Access reference is that similar situations have been tropes since at least the 1990s. I do actually understand that. I have done this very put the Access database on the web job myself. (FWIW I was well-pai
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by dofm 23d ago
What you describe does not sound all that much more than button pushing, TBH. And your competition is not non-skilled people using AI to take your jobs. It is _cheaper people_ using AI to take your jobs. All the things that outsourcing team
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by dofm 23d ago
I have taught/lectured the odd thing in my past and I can do it; I come from a family of teachers and it is in the blood. I do not have the psychological constitution to teach kids so I am not going to do that. But teaching/traini
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by dofm 23d ago
That sounds completely miserable and Kafkaesque.
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by dofm 23d ago
I am moving to somewhere cheaper, yes. Though since my passport is no longer strong (British), my choice/range of cheaper is a lot more limited. Quality of life will not improve, because I will be lonelier (plus I have a great qualit
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by dofm 23d ago
To be fair to people, TSA attracts people who live near airports and need jobs, doesn't it? ICE, yes. At this point you cannot make an argument at all that you are going to join a fair-minded organisation that treats people decently wh
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by dofm 23d ago
> As always, with OpenSCAD (well CSG in general) Then you are not actually getting a model with a constraint system at all. Which is the point of the thing I'm replying to. CAD constraints are more powerful and flexible than OpenSCA
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by dofm 23d ago
> to clean up or actually deploy everyone's half-baked MS Access app So we are switching to LLMs to be fucking miserable in our jobs?
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by dofm 23d ago
Yes but it's cheaper? Of course they will do it by themselves. Because it's cheaper. I mean it's weird that we all imagine reasons why we're still relevant when we have set fire to the thing that made us indispensable. I
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by dofm 23d ago
I think it's a mistake to assume that quality doesn't plummet when cost does, even if the AI is capable of quality work. The quality issue will always resurface. But yeah — I mean, I am a freelancer who burned out for reasons that
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by dofm 23d ago
Literally everyone I know in a large enough company who talks about AI talks about increasingly panicky mandates to use more Copilot coming from above, like you'll lose your job if you don't use it more. I heard exactly this story
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by dofm 23d ago
> Our client wants something: I mumble in my phone what they want, with some spec docs we had / made by mumbling in our phones: a working system comes out, we test it with our client, we fix. We sign a SLA, get paid 100k, a few wee
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by dofm 24d ago
Sorry, yes, all the other replies are right and I was just being a bit mischievous.
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by dofm 24d ago
Yeah, I mean my slice of the internet is full of video shorts of people using dead ballpoint pens/tetra paks/kitchen ingredients/Temu pasta makers, or silicone baking mats/budget acrylic paint/leaves/laser prin
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by dofm 24d ago
> Prices are moving inference to highly profitable I hate to wave the Wikipedian protester sign, but...
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by dofm 24d ago
Interesting. I think if AI is useful at all it will be useful in a partly-GUI context, so I am encouraged. At a glance, not sure how you're approaching constraints, and what luck you've had with getting language models to be able
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by dofm 24d ago
The author is working on a text-to-CAD app. I would hope they were a bit further along with understanding CAD in order to make AI automate it? (Am I naïve? … Oh god, I'm naïve)
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by dofm 24d ago
> I know enough domain lingo to describe the task well, and if it falls flat I will do it myself, but it's coming along faster than you seem willing to accept. Could you do meaningful things without domain language you learned the l
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by dofm 24d ago
The fundamental difference is that CadQuery uses that jQuery-inspired fluent syntax, with a sort of metalanguage for some aspects, and Build123D is more pythonic with two different more procedural syntaxes. The other big difference (which I
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by dofm 24d ago
Exactly. But then text-to-CAD projects almost all have this over-reliance on the declarative nature of OpenSCAD. Cynically it always feels to me like they are written by people who not only think end users shouldn't have to learn CAD p
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by dofm 24d ago
I mean, people didn't write the text, but people did decide it was what they wanted it to say? I don't really get it. But then I think text-to-CAD is probably the strongest example of cart-before-horse thinking in the AI world as
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by dofm 24d ago
What it means is that a good CAD model is not just sticking stuff together in 3D space. Parametric flow means that a small number of measurements ripple through the design, and sketches and solids adapt. To do this right, it's easier t
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by dofm 24d ago
Right, but the thing that I think sort of militates against this scenario is this: If a non-CAD person imagines a part that they need, the chances are very high indeed that either it isn't what they need, can't be made robustly

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