Posted by dcoulmbe 17 hours ago
Been using Solidcraft which is another great example. Lower memory usage and better performance than Fusion 360 and improving quickly.
The power agentic development gives to a single person with love for the craft of software development creates better products than a large team with corporate steering.
This was always the case but types of software like advanced CAD modelling was outside the scope of what a single developer could accomplish. Now it isn't and it's a great thing that will create a lot of high quality new tools for humanity.
Seriously, the subscription frontier models scratch my control freak nerves and lets me build my computing set up just the way I want and not a single bit more. I’m currently making a minimal Linux distribution for myself based on Gentoo with the idea to develop any and all graphical applications except Firefox _for_ myself using LLMs. Nothing on my system I don’t need.. It sounds absurd but is still possible in 2026 with these subsidised LLMs. They are not my private data, so I don’t mind having the agents build it, test it, and automate it. If they want to train on my calculator app and CAD built upon other code from the Internet they are already trained on, they are welcome to :-)
This right here is a new age of personal computing.
;-)
Omg why is rust relevant to the question whether this is free or not.
ChatGPT: Rust's biggest advantage is that it provides C/C++-level performance with much stronger memory safety guarantees, without requiring a garbage collector.
PS. I think you might also want to review the comment guidelines on this site... e.g. "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. "
Vibed out project has already gone through a rename and it's 2 weeks old?
Also, serious question, why would I trust this software?
There are good and bad slops.