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An LLM wrote the toolpaths for his plasma cutter and he cut the result in steel

An LLM looked up CNC plasma cutter specs and wrote Python to generate and debug G-code toolpaths, then he cut the result in steel.

How it works

  1. An LLM looks up the plasma cutter's specs
  2. Writes code to generate and debug the toolpaths
  3. He cuts the result in steel

Why it’s worth knowing

The cut is the compile step, and it passed.

Where it’s from

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

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