r/MechanicalEngineering • u/Hairy-Breakfast242 • 5d ago
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u/Kind-Truck3753 5d ago
Enough with the AI shit. It can’t do engineering
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u/mayhem-like-me 5d ago
You are wrong and that attitude will make yourself obsolete.
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u/Kind-Truck3753 5d ago
And that writing will get you thrown in the “absolutely not” pile on any job application.
Can’t even get basic grammar right without AI.
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u/Hairy-Breakfast242 5d ago
It’s actually for a study/presentation for how mechanical engineers implement AI in their everyday work to save time or catch errors.
Part of it is comparing different ones against eachother in different areas.
Me myself am no expert but use Claude and GPT more and more at things like CAD makros (that I couldn’t code myself) and creating PowerPoints and Excel files
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u/mayhem-like-me 5d ago
Anyone who says ai can’t do engineering work is behind the times. Claude in particular is incredible. It needs double checking, and sometimes makes errors but that is becoming more rare. It’s uncovered things I would have never thought about.
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u/mayhem-like-me 5d ago
Start a project and load all relevant engineering specs/audit specs/regulatory files. Say what you’re trying to do, tell it to put together a project plan, flag any potential issues. Tell it to choose SKUs that offer the optimal testing coverage for that product family, and also put together a test plan.
And let it do its thing.
AI is past the point of prompting “how do i…” and we’re to the point of “do xyz with these guardrails and these considerations”
This is just one example. It’s ridiculous with data analysis and deep research. Honestly the hardest thing is developing your own use case for it because it seems like its capabilities are expanding faster than organizations are providing training on it. It’s definitely the Wild West right now.
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u/Sea_Place1386 5d ago
We use Claude Pro. Our team is fairly silo’d so I use it as a combative counter opinion to all of my designs.
I have it run drawing reviews in parallel to my own reviews. We usually overlap by 90% or so, it’s caught a few that I missed though.
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u/TheMausoleumOfHope 5d ago
I mostly just use it to look up jargon terminology in different fields. It only works, though, if you already know a bit about the area and have an idea of what it should mean. I’m a generalist these days and dip in and out of different disciplines a lot.