https://www.blacksmith.sh/ and https://runs-on.com/

They also say that they're much cheaper than github

Also changing CAD programs is already hard enough and having very similar UI/UX is a feature, not a by-product of agentic coding.

Also in many cases I honestly can't think of a better way to do stuff

That is exactly my take, though I'm ramping down the agents for the time being - 90% of the functionality is there and it's time to pay back the engineering time that I borrowed :P

I have a lot of experience developing CAD (before the AI boom) and while it made 0 sense to burn 1-2 years of my life to produce a similar MVP, now that I HAVE this MVP, it makes a ton of sense to pour my time on it

Also I'm gonna tackle some more god-problems with agents, like reversing the sldprt/f3d filetypes to allow importing them without losing history and more - each of this would require years of engineering hours and even achieving the 80% that agentic coding does is something that has never been done before

The development as I see it for such a project is about a year so I expect to take roughly 6 months to iron out the weird slop here and there

Having said that, the project right now is at an astonishing point and, in fear of jinxing myself, it works. Yea there are the occasional UI bugs here and there (incorrect tool grouping, incorrect tool icons, etc.) but welp, it does what I mostly want it to

Side note: I've done a similar project before and have tons of experience around building similar products, this is not an "AI success/AI will take your job" story - far from it

Interoperability is of paramount importance and it's probably going to be the best deep dive

Right now it can do most of the CAD stuff that one expects apart from anything that involves meshes or curved face manipulation - that'll come soon but I want to have a stable base first before I move any further

I hope you like it, I'm eager to hear your thoughts!

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can you tell us more about the use cases that you have in mind? I saw that you're able to run 1-4B models (which is impressive!)

No idea where truck is going, it'll take me quite some time to tinker with CAD I think, it left me quite a bitter taste...

Fornjot seems to be doing good, I'm donating to them and I get regular updates (you should too!). Still, there's a long, long road ahead

If I were to do this all over again I'd either go the OCCT route (like chili3d or zoo) or solvespace. they're both "lacking" kernels if you compare them to the commercial ones, but I think there's enough "market gap" for makers that would prefer a sustainable CAD format instead of perfect fillets (and IMO freecad is not the solution).

Keep in mind though that my efforts where laser focused on non-math stuff. From what I gathered from my time in cadmium, b-rep kernels are hard in an unsustainable level. Browser level unsustainable. I just hope that out of seer necessity we'll find another way to solve the CAD problem, instead of a b-rep kernel

Context: I was the main contributor/maintainer of cadmium

Like most people said, I too started kinda like that. Coding/computers is an amazing journey with near infinite paths to choose from

I wish you the best and slow clap to the amazing dad that was there to set the stage and be there for him.

Made my week for sure!

Especially useful for reversers and malware analysts

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