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Watching this whole "AI taking over" debate unfold, I feel like I'm seeing people in our industry fall into three different camps: First, there’s the Spectator. They use AI to generate flashy concept art or write basic emails. It’s pure consumption—cool to look at, but they don't really know how the engine works. Then you have the Skeptical Co-Pilot. This is where I sit for my daily development. You let AI do the heavy lifting for specific, tedious tasks, but you absolutely do not trust it blindly. You sandbox its output and rigorously test it before ever putting it into your actual workflow. Finally, there’s the Blind Believer. This is the whole "AI Agent" crowd trying to run a one-man firm. They type a prompt and expect a flawless final product the next morning. The reality? You have no idea what kind of spaghetti code or geometric garbage is hidden inside that black box, and auditing it takes longer than just doing the work yourself. Speaking of that "skeptical co-pilot" approach, I actually went down a massive rabbit hole with it recently. I was trying to solve a very pragmatic problem: How do we get an LLM to generate hyper-precise CAD geometry without eating up a million tokens and spitting out hallucinated garbage? Natural language just doesn't cut it for drafting. So, I worked with an AI to invent a prototype "Universal Morphological Matrix" (I just call it V-Code). The idea was to strip away all the human linguistic fluff and reduce CAD commands down to an absolute, 256-token hex-based root system. It basically compresses professional CAD knowledge into a tiny "Cosmic Language", which a local interpreter can then unpack back into precise AutoCAD/LISP commands. I pushed the experiment so far that I jokingly asked the AI to use this highly compressed logic to solve the P vs NP math problem. It confidently spit out a bunch of hex codes and claimed it had solved it. Did I believe it? Absolutely not, because I couldn't read its alien derivation track at all, haha! At the end of the day, AI is an incredibly powerful engine. But if you take your hands off the steering wheel and just blindly trust the machine, you're going to crash. It remains a tool exclusively for people who already know exactly what they are doing.

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Set bit 1 of the QAFLAGS system variable (storing the original value and resetting after the command); with bit 1 enabled, the EXPLODE command will accept selection sets when invoked from the LISP API. Alternatively, ensure that this bit is not set and only pass a single entity with no double quotes. The key point is that by controlling the bit, you can ensure consistent behaviour.

a little story : This is the famous Myth of Thamus and Theuth, found in the dialogue Phaedrus by the Greek philosopher Plato (written around 370 BCE). In this text, Plato has his teacher Socrates relate an ancient Egyptian anecdote. Here is how the story unfolds: The Invention The Egyptian god Theuth (Thoth), the deity of inventions, visits Thamus, the king (pharaoh) of Egypt. Theuth presents his various creations, including arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. Finally, he introduces the written word. Theuth is enthusiastic and claims: "This invention will make the Egyptians wiser and improve their memories. It is a potion for both memory and wisdom!" The Pharaoh's Objection King Thamus is not impressed and responds with deep skepticism. He argues that writing will have the exact opposite effect: Memory loss: People will stop training their memories. By relying on external written characters, they will no longer internalize knowledge. The illusion of wisdom: People will read quantities of information without proper instruction. As a result, they will appear knowledgeable but will actually remain ignorant, becoming conceited and difficult to get along with. The Historical Irony Socrates used this story to argue that spoken dialogue is superior to the written word. He believed text is dead; it cannot answer back or clarify itself when misunderstood. The ultimate irony is that Socrates himself never wrote anything down. The only reason we know this story today is because his student, Plato, wrote it down. This ancient debate resurfaces with every technological leap. The same anxieties were voiced about the printing press, calculators, the internet, and now, Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This particular issue has been in play for a long time. Have you ever gone to a food joint, the power is out, and the staff refuse to prepare food for you because they can't ring it up? Like they've never heard of pencil and paper or making change. If you can't do the basic, human version of your job, you'll be left in the dark (sometimes literally) when the AI can't do its job. Worse, you won't recognize when the AI is making a mistake. Without a real-world backup, and the sense to use it, you're at the mercy of the AI and its hallucinations. It's the height of irresponsibility to replace us with something that needs its hand held all the time in case it has a malfunction.

AI has been around a long time, LLM since the 1990's, LISP was created for AI programming IIRC. It's a tool just like VLIDE, VS Code, etc. for programming. Problem, just like before, people came on to forums often demanding a code, etc. be written to make their life easier instead of learning something on their own to do it themselves. Most forums used to provide help and occasionally a custom code, etc. just like... That's a long list of requests. So now they demand AI to do their demands, those with some abilities have success, those that have great abilities have great success, etc. I know recently a man in Lee County, FL was arrested for a crime committed in or near Jacksonville, FL due to AI facial recognition, done by a third county's AI program, no second looks, no reasonable investigation, the man had never been to Jacksonville and a valid alibi for the time showing such. That's the bigger problem with AI right now, accepting the results without question. From the comments I see everywhere a great many seem tired of the AI everything.

I’m loving AI, it’s allowed me to do stuff that would take months to write in days. Example, this dark mode project to BricsCAD (https://github.com/CEXT-Dan/BrxDarkMenu) would have taken months to research.I had already done some win32 programming in the past, but very little. In short, you kind of have to know what you’re doing to use AI. I read about the Brown university thing where the professor made the students do their exams in class and most of the class failed. Scary! People need to at least learn foundational level stuff before using AI. What if the cloud is down, or you reach your token max, would you be able to go old school and continue? Or just sit there and twiddle your thumbs. With regards to anti-scraping, I see lots of open-source projects moving off GitHub to other places like Codeberg so their projects aren’t scraped, I guess so big companies that use AI don’t end up getting their code. I’m the opposite, I want AI to train on my code (if its open source)

Couple of comments to add: MHUPP mentioned anti-scraping, years ago I had a website and would layer the important images, put together they showed correctly but a left click, copy, paste, gave something like just the yellow and a transparent colour block - had to dig a little deeper to get the original image... so it is something that has happened kind of for years. If it is out there though I don't know if you can have a true anti-scraping system and have it visible to the humans CADTutor, for the future of AutoCAD, I am not concerned - though I am also including the others such as BricsCAD and so on - many of the issues on one system are common to the others and this forum will be relevant for a while yet (15 years please, till I retire...).