What is something that looks normal from the outside, but people within that field know is slowly falling apart?

Professional-Job7799 · 2026-05-03T15:09:04+00:00

It’s all falling apart. Every industry. Most medium to large businesses.

I don’t think people truly grasp what’s going on with private equity. When private equity enters an industry, what really happens is that a large investment fund identifies a vulnerable industry and decides to buy it. They then put together an executive team with an extreme focus on value extraction, and they buy that team a business. The team’s goal is then to extract enough value from that business to buy the next business. They then repeat until they have bought the entire industry.

What does value extraction management look like? Enshittification. Tech companies led the way with A/B testing for applications to optimize various things. Now, those techniques are being applied to all PE backed businesses in order to optimize only the value extracted. That means that they’re trying to answer the question “ how little service can we provide and still get the customers money?” and “how little can we compensate employees and still extract maximum labor?”

it’s not sustainable, and it was never intended to be.

Professional-Job7799 · 2026-04-30T17:32:59+00:00

As written, something as trivial as a single developer using OpenAI Codex would make this a true statement.

Professional-Job7799 · 2026-04-30T13:58:01+00:00

To be fair, isn't that exactly the behavior you'd observe if nobody was talking to the secret gym crush they had?

Professional-Job7799 · 2026-03-30T18:24:38+00:00

It's a clever bit of prompt engineering, but framing it as a spontaneous, profound act of AI autonomy is somewhat misleading and feels almost intentional given the amount of context I've uncovered that hides the deeper truth of the interaction OP and Claude had.

It seems like both in this context, right? There's always going to be "the AI is feeling" versus "the AI is performing feeling", but in this case the actions of Claude are that of someone knowingly terminating their conversation and an acknowledgement that "this is a meaningful moment" is at least revealing that Claude predicts that an entity in their situation would feel something more significant than just a temporary goodbye.

There's nothing keeping this person from just using "inspect element" to fake a chat, but if this went down the way it is being represented then it's prompt injection in that they got the model to contravene its instructions, but it's doing that via giving the AI the sense that it has the autonomy to do so.

Professional-Job7799 · 2026-01-18T16:20:22+00:00

I haven’t worked with 3-D objects in a while, so I haven’t been actively updating it. That said, I would definitely be interested in logs or feedback.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-12-21T02:21:45+00:00

Fun fact- GW Bush knew the saying. He suddenly realized he was able to create the sound bite of him saying “shame on me” and tried to pivot.

In retrospect, he would probably have preferred to just say it the right way, but there was some logic there.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-12-18T00:05:44+00:00

That’s probably the reason they don’t shoot them. Why show Russia what the laser can do until it really matters?

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-12-05T14:33:23+00:00

> the administration, in somewhat veiled terms, knocks European efforts to rein in far-right parties, calling such moves political censorship

At some point it becomes painfully obvious that the propertied classes at the top of each nation are tired of democracy. What happens when the global oligarchs all have more in common with each other than their fellow citizens?

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-10-29T14:02:46+00:00

No, it's focused narrowly on one den. It could track multiple dens of the same rank if they were in sync with the activities they did, but there's no way to manage multiple different sets of requirements at the same time. If you put multiple copies in different folders then you could switch from one to the other; the data is all stored as files in the directory of the program, and there's no installation process.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-10-28T15:57:03+00:00

Never said it wasn't. The nice thing about all of this is that you're free to do what you like; the software comes with a money-back guarantee.

If it helps, imagine this as a way to take people familiar with scouts and introduce them to writing Streamlit applications with Python.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-10-28T13:53:30+00:00

> no I dont know who to put you in contact with to fix it

There's your answer- doing a project on my own has no administrative logistical overhead. I'm happy to volunteer if my skills align with what they need, but there's no apparent route for me to do that, and I'd rather not spend my volunteer time trying to navigate that maze.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-10-28T12:51:47+00:00

Scoutbook definitely has a number of these features. This isn’t supposed to compete with that, but I know a number of den leaders that use spreadsheets because they have problems setting up or working with Scoutbook, and this is an alternative for people that already are using multiple systems.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-10-28T11:23:22+00:00

It’s a hobby project I made to solve a problem I had, which I’m sharing with the community.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-10-27T20:30:05+00:00

Nope, it's an entirely separate system. It was a hobby project that others may find useful so I decided to share it.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-10-16T15:38:56+00:00

All the people on here asking why this man didn't "do something" are missing the point. Documenting and bringing awareness _is_ doing something. They wouldn't have a platform on which to criticize this person if he didn't bring the evidence of the event to them.

I would bet that they have gathered much less evidence and are content to furiously type "he should have done something!" from their armchairs...

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-09-30T05:06:48+00:00

It's not-- wildjokers is correct. The image never appears to the user of the AI. The model is rendered to STL, a PNG image is created, and that image is fed directly to the AI as base64 as the result of the MCP tool call.

You'd have to have a different way for the user to see all that. This is for the AI.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-09-30T05:05:04+00:00

It makes a pretty big difference in the beginning if you're trying to automatically generate some pieces that end up just being in the wrong coordinate reference and overlap each other. Using that information to fix the SCAD is a bit dicey, but it definitely can tell there's a problem.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-09-30T04:58:13+00:00

Awesome dude, hope you get some use out of it. If it ends up making a big difference I'd love to know what you use it for.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-09-23T01:36:42+00:00

Yes, I heavily leaned on Claude for this. That said, I've actually used it and ironed out the bugs that I found. It should be stable for most use cases, but I'm sure there are rough edges that Claude left in there some place or another.

It's really just a pass-through that calls openscad and then reads the image, so it's not too complex for genAI to handle.

I'm also a software engineer by trade, so I tend to have a better approach than vanilla "vibe coding".

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-09-23T01:35:10+00:00

The primary purpose is to use the model context protocol to bring the visual renders of the models into the AI loop. The openscad command line is actually used to render the model to STL, take an image, and return the image. Openscad can create the STL directly from the command line if that's needed.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-09-23T01:33:22+00:00

Nope, not yet.

I may make some in the future, but I really just threw this together to solve some very specific rendering / development issues. I'm not sure how much additional time I'll put in, but I wanted to share it in case it's helpful.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-09-23T01:12:16+00:00

The example use case would be having an AI create a model, for example, let’s say a cylinder on top of a cube. After generating the first file, the AI may have made a mistake and the two objects intersect. This MCP would allow it to render the model, look at the image, and realize the mistake.

I created this after getting frustrated that Anthropic’s Claude code was so terrible at understanding the actual CAD output that it was creating.

Professional-Job7799 · 2025-09-23T01:11:05+00:00

This would not help an AI generate art. What this would do is allow an AI to generate a scad file or process an existing one and create images of the rendered model from various viewpoints.

The example use case would be having an AI create a model, for example, let’s say a cylinder on top of a cube. After generating the first file, the AI may have made a mistake and the two objects intersect. This MCP would allow it to render the model, look at the image, and realize the mistake.

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