Hi ZeroLengthCurve
Originally Posted by: ZeroLengthCurve 
I saw it too. Impressive, whether or not vibe-coded…… Sharks are among the oldest and most powerful and most resilient animals on the planet. SharkCAD needs more teeth and improved gills. The seawater is only getting cloudier.
Yes, I thought about the vibe coding side too, but I’ve been guilty of using that in parts for the last two weeks, trying to get my DIY programmable car ignition of the ground. Over years, like my CAD dabbling, I have tried to get it over the line, and despite having a load of experience with commercial systems, I wanted something simple, that a small segment of classic car (Panhard) owners could relate too. I last looked at it in February 2026 and some Arduino code using libraries wouldn’t work for me when I was checking it on an oscilloscope, no matter what, so I laid it up.
My point is two weeks ago, I fed some of the code into AI, described the symptômes, and in an hour it had homed in on the error, and then went down a prompt/reply rabbit hole for 5 days on and off, before I called time and fed my simple working code from two years ago into it, and said why don’t you use a simple interrupt model as I only need this type of triggering sensor trigger….well it just got better. Then I got to the limits of the is microprocessor, so asked if as we aren’t using this processor specific library aka core engine, can we not use any processor know, which it could, and within a few hours it had done just that, but I got sent down another rabbit hole, before I pulled it back, and changed direction again. This type of AI interaction where you see patterns, and ask questions, query responses etc I have found truly remarkable,
I now realise this is the strength of AI for me, I can ask a specific question, say this and this is happening, it will claw through the code, and explain what is happening, and why, suggest a fix, and in no time you’ve got a solution. I just wish that SharkCAD developers used this, maybe they have or will, just a simple compare CAD kernels exercise would be huge, and it’s amazing these start ups (individuals who are passionate) have got this far, even using AI to find fault with NVIDiAs open source kerne, sending the results back to NVIDIA, who fixed it is huge.
Another thing you notice, is that they are multi platform dependant from the off, including a Linux port etc, and Apple Silicon, I can’t help when Tim sees these sort of developments, his cogs will be turning, or even maybe somebody in his team, will try and use it to solve their pipelines of development.
I hope so, Sharks are needed in the ecosystem.
Mike
Edited by user Monday, November 9, 2026 2:14:23 AM(UTC)
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