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I will caveat that this probably isn't a great use case for either 3d printing (repeated torque and temperature flux) or AI (if you can make these measurements, you can build something in TinkerCAD in seconds). If you're genuinely fighting it, the right answer is a QuikClamp and either a oversized hose clamp (if the hose is fairly heavy-duty) or some hair scrunchies (if it isn't).
That said, Claude Opus 5 gave not-crazy answers. I'm a little disappointed that it gave the recommendation to include a zip-tie slot and then didn't actually do it, and trying to get it to add one in ended up taking much longer than just doing an edit in the slicer and was overengineered in some bad ways. But it's at least intern-grade results rather than useless, and for completely non-engineer people it's probably better than they could do in the 15 minutes it took me to boot up my laptop, prompt, and validate in my slicer.
((Counterpoint, though: Grok's first attempt was awful even on Expert; LLMs do poorly on spatial reasoning problems like this.))
I'm not. I used a solved problem as a test for the models.
That's substantially better than the sixth iteration in Sonnet or the 20th in ChatGPT (it was faster, but not any better). It put all the thicknesses in the right directions, connected all the pieces at the correct points, had everything facing in the correct directions, and even had decent choices for the corners.
I guess there is something to the big models being step-changes over small ones.
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