So may we conclude that you made up the days you say in this post? For your Wife made a different choice for dinner “only a month ago” .
Also could it be that she uses a different AI to find different “best” restaurants?
My similar post…
And the Wife doesn’t use AI - she can barely use the TV remote 
I still use google and wikipedia for that 
I use Mihai for that 
google image. or any facebook group filled with 50 something dads fans of fixing up stuff. their collective knowledge of bathroom fixtures is still greater
many people use AI today for convenience, they do with it things they used to do a different way simply because they’re already here.
it’s a bit like facebook. facebook swallowed online galleries, forums, blogs, emails and even texts and calls. and news. it was super convenient to have it all in the same location. But it also means that if the location gets corrupted, then it’s all corrupted.
just because it’s here and it looks more convenient doesn’t always mean it’s a better solution.
I was using Gemini and my phone camera, which I assume uses google image search.
I have some of those 50 something Dads that like fixing stuff as friends - all their suggestions didn’t work either. Basically I need to use muscle power. I don’t mind breaking it on a Saturday morning. I just didn’t want to ruin it on a Thursday night.
It worked better for what I needed. Googling is still useful for certain things. Gemini or Copilot can be useful for other things.
But you’re right, it’s not always a better solution. Change isn’t always better. Software updates don’t always improve things…
Well, my attempts have all failed… & as I said, I no longer have the patience or band-width that I did forty years ago (or even a decade ago)… I’l try again in a while, maybe.
You can’t just have it code an extension, you need to seriously discuss the details before you let it do its magic Sometimes this discussion can take an hour or so, it just depends on the task.
I use it almost daily now to help with adding new features into my extensions. I have to “coach” it a bit and sometimes it doesn’t find the most exact way to do things but overall it has increased my speed and for some tasks it can do almost 95% of the heavy lifting. Something that may have taken me 2-3 days to do is now achievable in 2-4 hours, this is a generalization but it has been my experience over the last 3 or 4 months.
I have been on a ChatGPT coding marathon the past day and a half for Sketchup building tools I probably have no business building. Crazy what you can do now.
- I made a project timer, which I probably should’ve realized SUClock exists but I didn’t until after the fact… but I like mine more
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I made a miscellaneous toolkit that has all kinds of features in it that seem simple enough, but really help with my unique workflow (I don’t make buildings, I make robots)
Note: I did make the icons myself… the ones being made by ChatGPT were way too HD.
- I made joint articulation tool that lets me choose which component origin I want to rotate from and what axis…
- And I made a tool that allows me to quickly move the component axis origin (Best used with my articulation tool) for quick rotation points.
This is all just ChatGPT. If I was using Claude, probably would’ve taken less time. I have so many more ideas to run through but I’ve burned myself out over the past day and a half, lol.
So it’s definitely possible, anything is possible through debugging and process of elimination (It also helps to sometimes point it directly to the Sketchup Ruby API database lol; my origin tool for the component axis just wouldn’t work until, through ruby console debugging and a link to the Ruby API, we found the problem after multiple console tests).
I feel in a way it makes SU a bit more individualistic :
Many people in this thread mention using AI to make the tools they needed, but… where are the tools ? the whole point of sketchup is about community sharing (for free or not) tools, and on sketchucation you can still find older threads where people don’t share actual proper plugins but just snippets of code, not even properly packaged, for you to copy and paste in the console.
many of Eneroth’s recent plugins are exactly this, she needs tools to make her train sets, and she publishes the tools. maye some will only be used by a few people, but at least she helped the community.
what I’m trying to say is, we need the "Arcwalde’s robot complex work addons - light edition " (and yes, it makes a recursive acronym, don’t thank me)
You don’t even have to publish to the EW, look at Dezmo, he has published things just to the forum over the years
I will share my plugins for free.
But I’m testing them really hard, tweaking features and bugs, optimizing performances and so on.
If you want to be a beta tester send me a private message. I need testers for mac.
I want to run everything through a few more stability passes, but yeah, the plan is to eventually publish them to the Extension Warehouse!
With so many plugins possibly being uploaded every day, I wonder how the SketchUp team is keeping up. In the near future, they will probably use an AI agent to approve or reject submissions.
they made a thread about it, they are not. it’s piling up.
sad to see you didn’t go with the awesome acronym of awesomeness 
that’s a really cool icon though.
They are not keeping up? Where is the thread? Do you know?
With thousands of plugins likely to enter the market, it may become too saturated for most developers to gain meaningful attention.
It could end up like the book market, where publishing is easy but visibility depends on promotion, sponsorship, or an existing audience. Because of that, it may make more sense to build tools mainly for personal use and share them selectively on forums rather than expecting every plugin to become a successful product.
people don’t share stuff on the warehouse because they want success. most of them share stuff because they want to help people who might have the same issue as they did.
what you describe is still better than not sharing anythign, but it’s pretty much what I describe, people going more individualistic making their own plugins to solve their own problems instead of relying on the group.
it’s a major point I see everywhere with mass AI. “you” can do “everything”. therefore you don’t need anyone else.
That joint articulation tool ChatGPT made has made me greedy… multi-point origin articulation…
I can see how stuff like that is clearly a game changer for you…
you’re recreating rigging inside sketchup. noice
It may become overwhelmed with “AI Slop”, not to say that some of these extensions won’t be really good. We are already seeing this on various platforms and with certain types of media.