Comment by simplyluke
8 hours ago
Yeah, CAD has been my personal example of "oh the barrier to entry for this skill was high enough that I didn't do it and now I can be passably bad at it enough to get some simple things done"
I've had similar experiences with making simple functional parts off a 3d printer with OpenSCAD + LLMs. I'm very aware that the models are worse at it than say, generating react code, and I'm also the antithesis of a skilled pilot. It's still cool and has resulted in me starting to learn a new skill at a hobby level.
It's like this with a lot of things now. For example, Nix's learning curve used to be a huge barrier to entry. Now with LLMs, I'm using nix-darwin and home-manager for dotfiles, package management, and have individual flakes in all of my projects for cryptographically reproducible builds!
Nit: there’s nothing “cryptographic” about reproducible builds.
“Reproducible build” already usually implies bit-by-bit reproducibility.
I meant with Nix you're comparing hashes. With Docker, you're using pinned versions
i thought it mainly implied architectural/hardware compatibility and deterministic output
Nix is also great at work. You keep the server nix code in the same repo and OpenCode can just change and test server config.
Learning to make simple parts in onshape is pretty darn easy (and fun).
Yeah. I teach this after school to 7th grade kids. Anyone can pick this up in a few hours.
They taught us to make Legobricks with CAD when I was in 6th. Wish I retained more of that and that it would be more widely taught.
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