Rudidas would definitely be a worse name. Though I'd be surprised if an Amazon Marketplace knockoff brand is not already using it.
> 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.…
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…
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…
That sounds completely miserable and Kafkaesque.
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…
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…
> 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…
> 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?
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 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…
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…
> 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…
Sorry, yes, all the other replies are right and I was just being a bit mischievous.
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 printer…
> Prices are moving inference to highly profitable I hate to wave the Wikipedian protester sign, but...
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…
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)
> 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 can ripple through the design, and sketches and solids adapt. To do this…
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…
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Rudidas would definitely be a worse name. Though I'd be surprised if an Amazon Marketplace knockoff brand is not already using it.
> 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.…
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…
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…
That sounds completely miserable and Kafkaesque.
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…
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…
> 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…
> 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?
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 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…
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…
> 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…
Sorry, yes, all the other replies are right and I was just being a bit mischievous.
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 printer…
> Prices are moving inference to highly profitable I hate to wave the Wikipedian protester sign, but...
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…
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)
> 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 can ripple through the design, and sketches and solids adapt. To do this…
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…
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