Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

Re:Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD by murkt on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:14PM (#48574367)

I find all current LLMs to have pretty poor spatial awareness. It is becoming better, but still very poor. How are you dealing with that? Got any special tricks, any advice?

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Re:Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD by conradkay on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:45PM (#48575833)

My favorite spatial reasoning benchmark: https://minebench.ai/

no tricks, I'd definitely be curious to know how much screenshots help

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Re:Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD by zachdive on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:22PM (#48574497)

I write about this in detail here: https://adam.new/blog/bitter-lesson-ai-cad

This is improving greatly in recent model releases

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Re:Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD by murkt on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:28PM (#48574598)

Opus 4.5-4.7 was pretty bad at it, 4.8 was a bit better, and I have not tried Fable much.

So basically you have a good enough code that’s “intuitive” for a model, screenshots, and that’s it?

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Re:Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD by 8note on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:35PM (#48574707)

fable is a fair bit better, but to an extent its that it tried more things to get an understanding of whats happening than opus does

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Re:Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD by zachdive on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:45PM (#48574860)

Fable is considerably better from my experience: https://x.com/LLMJunky/status/2065229625702109340?s=20

Fingers crossed it comes back!

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Re:Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD by dmitriisn on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:42PM (#48579515)

bro, with all respect... your post says:

"Before working at Adam I worked at an AI Lab called Adept. We trained foundation models to do actions on a computer.

What does computer use now? The best general models. They just got good at it."

You were working for 4 months in Adept. What could you deliver or even learn in such a short period of time?

Sounds like an excuse tbh

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