Mechanical engineer: AI cut my day-long docs work to minutes, now asking peers for workflows
smash822 · reddit · 2026-10-09
A mechanical engineer with nearly a decade of experience describes how adopting Claude (mainly Claude Code) collapsed hour-to-day-long documentation tasks into minutes. He works across P&IDs, SolidWorks, PLC programming, LabVIEW and OpenFOAM, and asks peers about cowork mode, skills, connectors and MCPs for non-software engineering work.
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