antirez: AI-built CAD from papers alone already beats TinkerCAD at some tasks
antirez · x · 2026-09-17
Redis creator antirez says he started a CAD tool "as a joke" yesterday, working only from papers with no code references — and it already beats TinkerCAD on certain features like fillets. His broader observation: open source should be exploding right now, yet there seemingly aren't enough people motivated to build wonders.
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