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Comment by namibj

1 day ago

It's a proxy for abstract designing, like writing software or designing in a parametric CAD.

Most the non-math design work of applied engineering AFAIK falls under the umbrella that's tested with the pelican riding the bicycle. You have to make a mental model and then turn it into applicable instructions.

Program code/SVG markup/parametric CAD instructions don't really differ in that aspect.

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neepi  1 day ago

I would not assume that this methodology applies to applied engineering, as a former actual real tangible meat space engineer. Things are a little nuanced and the nuances come from a combination of communication and experience, neither of which any LLM has any insight into at all. It's not out there on the internet to train it with and it's not even easy to put it into abstract terms which can be used as training data. And engineering itself in isolation doesn't exist - there is a whole world around it.

Ergo no you can't just say throw a bicycle into an LLM and a parametric model drops out into solidworks, then a machine makes it. And everyone buys it. That is the hope really isn't it? You end up with a useless shitty bike with a shit pelican on it.

The biggest problem we have in the LLM space is the fact that no one really knows any of the proposed use cases enough and neither does anyone being told that it works for the use cases.