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ChatGPT Atlas for FeatureScript vibe coding
S1mon
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OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Atlas, which is their own web browser with built in ChatGPT agent functionality. So far this is MacOS only, but Windows is in development.
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/
What this means potentially is that you can use ChatGPT to vibe code FeatureScript. So far I'm not getting any particularly exciting results, but I'm not giving it the easiest problem. It does have the ability to edit the code within the FeatureScript tab of an Onshape document. It will hit the Commit button for you if you want. Again, I'm just starting, but it does seem like we're heading in the right direction.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn
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I'll give it a shot and see if it can dethrone Codex from my vibe coding toolbag. Codex did just get a quantization nerf that I'm not happy with working around lately so it might not take much.
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | MeddlerCan ChatGPT Atlas use two browser tabs at the same time?
Then it could code in one, commit the FeatureScript and check the result in the PartStudio.
I'll have to test as well
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I'm again trying to use ChatGPT with FeatureScript. It's gotten much better than it once was at knowing something about FeatureScript. It's doing a pretty good job of helping me think through a feature at mid to high level - including the math and the geometric algorithms. I haven't gotten to the point again where I'm trying to get it to generate real code. In asking about the best way to do that now, it "thinks" using VSCode with Codex and GitHub would be better. This seems odd since they have their Atlas Browser.
Since this thread was last active, has anyone else successfully done FeatureScript development with Atlas or using ChatGPT/Codex with VSCode?
Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn
@S1mon this isn't exactly what you were asking, but Gemini 3 pro has decent results using Antigravity if you give it reference files. When that fails you can hit up the latest thinking version of Claude (which is still the best at coding afaik). That said, you still have to keep a tight leash on it so it doesn't hallucinate.
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My preferred approach lately is to link Github copilot to a mirrored repo of the standard library and all of my custom features and send all my prompts through an agent. Cleans up 95% of hallucinations and only costs 1 premium request per prompt.
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | Meddler