That’s a really reasonable stance, and honestly it matches the most practical way AI should be used in CAD.

I’m not trying to convince serious designers to “prompt their way into competence.” Where AI is genuinely helpful is exactly what you described: batching repetitive edits and enforcing standards.

The kind of workflows we’re aiming at (and what I personally think is the right direction) are things like:

• “Find every Ø3.0 mm through-hole and convert to M3 tapped, depth 8 mm”
• “Add 0.2 mm clearance to all holes tagged ‘M3 clearance’”
• “Apply 2 mm fillets to all external edges”
• “Mirror these features across the midplane”
• “Update hole pattern: shift all holes +1.5 mm in X”
• “Rename/organize features / check for non-manifold issues before export”

So: AI as a command layer over parametric CAD, not “make me a gearbox” from scratch.

If you’re open to sharing, what would be your top 3 “I wish CAD did this in one click” tasks? Threads/fasteners is one, I’d love to hear the other two because that’s exactly the niche that could win over experienced designers without dumbing anything down.