Carl Bass

Maker of robots, furniture, boats and software. Former CEO Autodesk, co-founder Flying Moose, Ithaca Software and buzzsaw. Radical moderate politically

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@MaxLobovsky @MaxLobovsky Astra is doing some amazing stuff with engineering design and manufacturing. It will be interesting to see what is needed beyond the LLMs - certainly simulation tools - but I think most companies are shooting at the tail or solving yesterday's problems

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

So happy to see @rscottherren win Bay Area CFO lifetime achievement award for work @Cisco @autodesk and have it presented by another hall of famer @MarkHawkins

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@emm0sh @emm0sh Are you sure you can't "vibe CAD" a machine? Your picture belies the possibility that you can

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

We unfortunately have decided that we cannot continue providing access to our models through Cursor and are ending our partnership. It boils down to trust and we’ve asked that this takes effect on November 12 to give you some time to plan.

Many have used the GPT models through Cursor and here are options we know should work in the future:

- We will continue to allow using your own OpenAI API key and similarly will continue to provide access through our IDE extensions for Cursor.
- We will keep working with the broadest range of tools and harnesses, some of which are OSS, but also many many closed-source ones.

We are as committed as ever to continue supporting developers and the flourishing ecosystem of tools, harnesses and products. We will also continue to invest in our own open-source initiatives and believe in broad optionality for developers.

You can read more about our decision in the blog:
https://t.co/Oj76Bkc2KX

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@markproduct @markproduct That is some seriously stupid shit you're spouting

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@MarwaEldiwiny Here's one with an acculator that my son built

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@joshu Forced is such a strong word. Seriously the horn on the servo has m2.5 threads

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

Six days on the Rogue and I'm gonna make it home tonight

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@zachdive @adamdotnew @zachdive No but I've used Claude and Chat with Fusion very successfully. You should be able to do it with any CAD/CAM package with a good, well-documented API

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@rms80 @emm0sh @rms80 @emm0sh who googles anything anymore :) Convergent modelling is incredibly optimistic marketing though I really can't wait for being able to use B-rep, meshes and implicit modelling more seamlessly

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@emm0sh But do you know why they called it Autodesk and what was their first product? If not, I'll tell you tomorrow on the podcast

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@Reshef_ @Onshape Here's Claude talking to Fusion - future of CAD will be LLMs talking to or integrated with CAD. And it will become much more powerful when we have LGMs (large geometric models)

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@connorkapoor Funny! When I coached little league, all the kids made wooden bats and these are some of the extras

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

Just finishing new side table

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@emm0sh couple of pins and yellow glue

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@arrington @arrington How long did it take you?

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@emm0sh @MikkelsenPads @MaxLobovsky Here's the lastest contraption - turns photos into drawings. Harder to do w/o params and associatively. Otoh mich stuff on https://t.co/OyWkZGfLjD can be done with direct modelling

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@emm0sh @MikkelsenPads @MaxLobovsky I'm down but we need something better than a turbine blade to test our skills

[Carl Bass @carlbass]

@emm0sh @MaxLobovsky I don't do it much but I know some very talented modellers who completely agree with you