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An agent reverse engineered a CAD tool's interface to dodge its API pricing

Made Astra reverse-engineer Onshape's UI to build a middle-man extension exposing an API that bypasses the official API pricing, now used for AI CAD with AI and the AI.

How it works

  1. He makes the agent reverse engineer the CAD tool's UI
  2. Builds a middle-man extension exposing an API that bypasses the official API pricing
  3. Now used for AI-driven CAD with two agent tools

Why it’s worth knowing

The UI was the API all along, for a sufficiently patient reader.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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