All ideasMore in Hobbies
Hobbies

An LLM designed his workbench in CAD and checked it; he built it, mostly fine

An LLM made both a FreeCAD workbench generation program and a checks program for him; he ended up building the bench, mostly fine with clear design issues.

This only partly worked. Read what happened before you try it.

How it works

  1. An LLM makes both a CAD workbench generation program and a checks program for him
  2. He ends up building the bench
  3. Mostly fine, with clear design issues

Why it’s worth knowing

Mostly fine, built in wood, is a fair review for a first CAD agent.

Where it’s from

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

Upgraded prompt

A ready-to-use prompt for this idea, built from research on what makes AI agents do the job right: who the AI should be, the exact steps, and a check to make sure it was done the way you wanted.

1Who the AI should be
2The prompt, with the steps
3The check when it’s done
Upgraded prompts are coming soon.

Try next

HobbiesThe AI built its own mail app in 23 minutesHobbiesThe AI fixed the gapless playback on mp3s I ripped 20 years agoHobbiesMy bot cleaned up my Notion and retagged 1,100+ bookmarksHobbiesAn AI assistant traced my family tree past 1,200 people and 13 generations

Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.