Comment by brookst

It’s insane and wonderful. I always wanted to get into slipcasting pottery, but of course straight from CAD without all the “make something 20% larger than hou want, fire it, make mold using plaster and expertise” part.

Kicked it around for years, but CAD mold-making, especially multi-part mold-making, is reslly hard. Geometry, physics, understanding the process of using it… it was way more than I could find the time to develop expertise in.

Claude code, an MCP server to controll grasshopper (MCP server entirely written by claude of course), and maybe 8 hours total and I’ve got a fully algorithic multi-part mold-making program that designs the plastic tools I need to print, so I can pour silicone into plastic, so I can pour plaster into silicone, and the plaster parts fit goether perfectly for the final mold.

And it was fun. AI has brought joy back into coding projects I used to put off because they felt like a grind.