Comment by jvanderbot

So, steps 1-5 can be done by clicking (tools you recommend), or writing lines of script (OpenSCAD). Once you grok those steps by just doing it yourself, you quickly get to a point where an LLM is quicker at editing the text file that represents the steps to generate the model. Things like "Make the extruded face I labelled blahblah do xyz", and it's quite good. Even better: "Parameterize curve abc and generate this spread" or something. You get it.

For LLM-assisted bespoke model generation it's still fine if you specify a process to follow, and can "speak the language" (knowing 1-5).

This is no different than purevibe vs LLM-assistance, IMHO. What TFA refers to is a more end-to-end, no iterative process, with no single touchpoint script like OpenSCAD offers, so it's very much _not_ a collaboration and requires no knowledge of how CAD models are made.

But this thread is moreso about iterating on an OpenSCAD specification using LLMs.