FreeCAD on desktop is much the same in my experience. If LLMs were mainstream a few years ago I would have assumed the UI was 100% AI generated with zero human input besides a oneshot prompt.

Browser can be local. What’s nice about browser based is that browser based programs can run on every device. Though it sounds like this one requires chrome which seems weird to me.

Probably nice to have for those with low income that only have a Chromebook.

(I made this port) Fwiw I personally had no reason to do this port beyond using it as a benchmark of the agentic capability of Fable, where something of this shape is IMO a way better gauge than those dumb X.com 'I oneshot game with models X/Y/Z this is how it compares'

I published the actual prompts, and you can see quite clearly that vs Opus which is ok at implementing one big feature, Fable was really able to push through a good chunk of the port. That said it definitely didn't one-shot the port, it also didn't figure out a broken docker sbx sandbox by itself, and also later needed some gaslighting into thinking that the port is not really that hard (by any human measure it was quite hard given the scope of code involved.. The nearly 200MB wasm binary is mostly code afaict..). So there are some clear patterns of how the model was trained and also roughly the scope of task visible in those traces. What I see is that it likes prompts that would take an L4/L5 2-4 weeks to do with Cursor ~2 years ago, more needs some direction and deliberate prompting.

Because then it doesn't matter what you're running locally, as long as you've got a supported browser (Chrome, I'm guessing). It means it doesn't have to make a difference if you have a Window 10 desktop or a MacBook Air or a Chromebook. Go to the web page and look at this CAD.

> It’s a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools.

Because it's built on Parasolid, the same geometric kernel as everyone else. With ACIS pretty much out the door, almost all the professional CAD packages are just window dressing on the same CG implementation.

Author of the port here, you need a browser with JSPI support, which means recent Chrome, or Firefox Nightly with the feature flag flipped, or Firefox from the future.

Seems it's only supporting Chrome at the moment.

I made the port, roughly ~one maxed out Claude Max 20x sub, at the bottom of the article I've shared the full claude code transcripts, so you can probably to some rough math on token usage with that.

Edit: to be precise 'maxed out' means one weekly limit on fable used over those 4 days