Just throwing this here since it’s still relevant to the subject (AI Coding, general discussion)
Been extensively working on this posing tool for awhile now, got it to a nice spot. Decided to add FPS modes which I don’t think play well across the recording but ■■■■ if they don’t look good in Sketchup itself.
I’ll probably release this as an unsigned extension in a few days once I eke out every little performance tweak I possibly can and see if I can’t do some type of composite pose preset to run multiple preset “animations” at once… ChatGPT tells me it’s possible, but I’m pretty sus. Would be neat for making little animations if I can get it to work, but just having what I have now is fun.
Also, wow, the d-word ending in n is censored… what is this world coming to… makes it sound like I’m saying something that’ll end the world.
AI in general? Or with regards to paid extensions? For the latter I guess it depends on the person (Both the one selling the extension and the one buying it). In general, though? Yeah, I can kind of see that. The brain rot is real.
Looking solely at some of the stuff that @Arcwalde is showing, it looks like it’s provided him the ability to create tools he never would have been able to create otherwise, so I don’t see how you could say that.
At the Brightman Summit last week, probably 10-15% of the people I talked to had created some kind of extension specific to their workflows to solve a problem that SketchUp couldn’t otherwise solve.
I’m not sure what this tech does to society as a whole, but from a customization of tools for tasks standpoint, this is far from a simple cash grab.
Based solely on the response the few people that have shared their tools so far have gotten, I’d be hesitant to share too. There’s a bit of hostility from the “you’re not a real dev” crowd that doesn’t exactly scream “open and inviting”
That gatekeeping will slowly melt away as AI only gets more powerful and the AI is able to generate code and hence plugins that begin to rival even the best plugins that are created by the most seasoned developers. For myself, as a full time developer, this is a little scary since the competition will only increase, however you really can’t stop progress.
The only thing to do as a developer is to hop on the AI bandwagon and try to leverage AI as much as possible and do your best to stay on top of the heap.
Things are going to get interesting in the next few years.
That hesitation is worth noticing, because of where it comes from.
There’s a certain kind of voice that always shows up the moment someone starts building. It never says “don’t try” outright, that would be too easy to ignore. Instead it sounds careful. Reasonable. A little world-weary. It tells you the work isn’t ready, that it’s probably slop, that the good days are behind us anyway. It sounds like wisdom. But its only real effect is to make you hesitate and keep what you’ve made hidden.
That voice isn’t protecting you. It’s protecting itself. Because if you share something rough and it works, it means the opportunity was there the whole time, and that’s uncomfortable for someone who chose to play it safe instead.
Don’t hand them that power. We already built things we couldn’t build before. That’s not slop, that’s proof. Keep going, and let them talk.
I assume you’re an architect.
I bet you say the same thing when a builder says he knows how to build a house and that architects are useless theorists.
You have any right to think whatever you want, but until you spin 99 agents which would have costed you about 1000$ in terms of true API cost (provided that you used Sonnet and not Opus) in order to debug a simple plugin, just to have a competent user spotting (with the naked eye) flipped normals in your output the next day, then you probably still need to reach the red peak in the graph below.
The fact that you spent very little time in this field, but you keep pontificating about time just proves my point.
But hey.. think whatever you want. You are a very vocal self-proclaimed successful builder after all.. I’ll not insist further.
