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AI agents, automation and judgment inside Autodesk products: Vault, Inventor, AutoCAD and Forma. What I build and what I learn, no hype.
Anti-hype checklist: 7 questions before buying "AI for engineering"
"AI for engineering" is the buzzword of the year. And a good part of what gets sold under that label does not survive 7 questions.
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What is MCP and why it changes how we talk to CAD software
Asking Inventor for an assembly in plain language is no longer science fiction. And the key piece has a name: MCP.
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AI agents on your credentials, not on an admin account
The most common security mistake in an AI agent is not in the model. It is in the permissions it runs with.
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Not everything needs AI: the 3-question framework I use before automating
One of the projects I'm most proud of doesn't have a single line of AI in it. And that's exactly why it works.
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From chat to CAD: the 3-layer architecture behind a design assistant you can trust
You can't just plug ChatGPT into Inventor and hope for the best. What actually works is a 3-layer architecture where the LLM never touches the CAD API.
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VaultPilot's 9 defense layers: an agent that writes to your PDM cannot improvise
I built an AI agent with write access to Autodesk Vault in production. And the first thing I designed wasn't what it does. It was what it cannot do.
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AI is not the promise. It is the means.
"Can you build me an AI agent?" is the question I get the most. I almost always answer with another one: what problem are you actually trying to solve?
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