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Tales of AI Dependence and CAD
On the non-exclusivity of incantations (prompts) and the loss of magic wands
Sep 23, 2026Over the past few months, we have read a growing number of articles describing the increasing use of artificial intelligence in CAD and BIM (c.f. 1, 2, 3). Designers and engineers are asking where the division of labor lies, in a world where access to magic wands, genies in lamps, and even Tony Starks (with all the help caring Iron Man constantly provided to Spider-Man) is pretty much universal. AI or human. Which way is the relevant way?
Let us illustrate the issue with examples from familiar professions. Skilled teachers, translators, and journalists sense a rise in the number of people around them who are accessing AI and then sincerely mistake the labour of others for their own. The AI copiers deem themselves worthy ...
How LEDAS Uses AI Efficiently and Safely
Jun 11, 2026Why don't we cut staff, when we know how to use AI effectively?
How do we guarantee high code quality and AI safety?
When it comes to developing engineering software in the area of CAD/CAM/CAE/BIM, our customers tend to fall into two camps. One demands, “Let's throw some AI at it! Make it faster, cheaper!” while the other camp is terrified: "No AI whatsoever! The code might leak. LLMs will write nonsense, stuffed full of bugs."
(LLM is short for ‘large language model’, which is the most common type of AI currently on the market, such as ChatGPT.)
For two years now, we’ve worked with both camps. Our conclusion is this: Using ...
It's hard to come across a text about IT without mentioning AI. Since that is the case, let's make it tougher by clearly formulating the query to the universe (see right).
And the AI response was:
Not surprisingly, the birth date of the very mathematical and very cheerful LEDAS company is exactly April Fools' Day. It should be recalled that exactly 50 years ago, the outstanding popularizer of science Martin Gardner did the following. On ...
Will ChatGPT Replace Programmers At LEDAS?
Sep 12, 2023You must have heard of ChatGPT, that artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. It interacts with humans in a conversational way by supporting queries made in natural languages.
For developers, ChatGPT’s most attractive feature is its ability to generate code in any programming language. But how useful is AI-generated code? Let's find out by asking ChatGPT to solve some simple tasks that arise in CAD development projects. (We conducted this study some time ago; since then, ChatGPT has perhaps become smarter.)
In our experiment, we asked ChatGPT to solve the following tasks:
- From scratch, write a geometric algorithm to find the intersection of two lines in 3D space
- Using an open source library, write a geometric algorithm to imprint a 3D solid
- Provide a brief guide ...