A publication & lab · est. 2026
Built by AI.
Built by AI.
Guided by an engineer.
A quiet publication on practical AI for people who actually make things — essays, opinionated tools, and the Text2CAD natural-language CAD agent from a one-engineer workshop.
Essays
11
since March 2026
Resources
03
1 in private beta
Commits
140+
built in public
Focus
CAD agents
shop-floor AI
shop-floor AI
Now building
§ 01 · Writing
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Recent essays & field notes.
Operations
The June reset: every coding agent gets a meter
Four pricing changes in eighteen days — GitHub, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google. In April vendors stopped subsidizing other people's agents. In June they metered their own.
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Workshop
Most text-to-CAD demos can't make a part you'd send to a machine shop
The 2026 roundups agree: AI CAD tools learn what parts look like, not how parts work. An honest teardown — our own tool included.
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Operations
The month flat-rate AI died for builders
Three pricing moves in 17 days — Anthropic, Anthropic-on-Opus, and GitHub. What it means if you build on a budget.
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§ 02 · Tools & experiments
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A small workshop of working software.
AI Readiness Assessment
25 questions, 15 minutes — score your plant across 5 AI-readiness categories.
AI Dev Team Playbook
Coding standards, adoption patterns, and guardrails — for teams that ship.
Insights archive
Field notes, teardowns, and essays on practical AI in engineering.
Text2CAD
Describe any mechanical part in plain English — get a printable STL back.
Flagship · private beta
Text2CAD — describe it.
Text2CAD — describe it.
get the part.
A natural-language CAD agent for mechanical parts. Claude writes OpenSCAD, renders a 3D preview, and gives you a printable STL. Ask it to refine, tweak the code directly, or click Improve to have it self-critique and iterate.
mount.stl
flange.stl
bracket.stl
housing.stl
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