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New comment by wgpatrick in "Teaching LLMs how to solid model"

wgpatrick — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:38:52 +0000

Complex assemblies completely fall on their face. It's pretty fun/hilarious to ask it to do something like: "Make a mid-century modern coffee table" -- the result will have floating components, etc.

Yes to your thought about the hybrid workflows. There's a lot of UI/UX to figure out about how to go back and forth with the LLM to make this useful.

New comment by wgpatrick in "Teaching LLMs how to solid model"

wgpatrick — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:34:59 +0000

Yeah - I fully agree with this POV. From a UX/UI POV, I think this is where things are headed. I talk about this a bit at the end of the piece.

New comment by wgpatrick in "Teaching LLMs how to solid model"

wgpatrick — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:08:14 +0000

I definitely agree with your point about the long prompts.

The long prompts are primarily an artifact of trying to make an eval where there is a "correct" STL.

I think your broader point, text input is bad for CAD, is also correct. Some combo of voice/text input + using a cursor to click on geometry makes sense. For example, clicking on the surface in question and then asking for "m6 threaded holes at the corners". I think a drawing input also make sense as its quite quick to do.

Teaching LLMs how to solid model

wgpatrick — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:13:43 +0000

Article URL: https://willpatrick.xyz/technology/2025/04/23/teaching-llms-how-to-solid-model.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774990

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New comment by wgpatrick in "The Three Questions: Culture Biosciences"

wgpatrick — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:36:13 +0000

Hello HN! Will here, CEO of Culture Biosciences. Happy to answer any questions you have.

The Center for Corporate Studies

wgpatrick — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:49:24 +0000

Article URL: http://www.centerforcorporatestudies.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440856

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