On: Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app

[jstanley]

> CADAM uses ngrok to send image URLs to Anthropic

FYI you can send base64 encoded PNGs, no need to mess about with ngrok.

[adenta → jstanley]

Yeah, the idea sounds magic, but there’s a lot of weird things going on in this application

I feel like a standalone script would be much more helpful

[zachdive → adenta]

i agree

[simlevesque → jstanley]

That'll use way more tokens.

[jacobr1 → simlevesque]

No, the tokens are evaluated on the image itself, once downloaded and resized. The same image sent as an encoded text payload and as url will cost the same. Now, if you are sending the content the model as a text payload, then that would cost text tokens, but that doesn't work very well for non-trivial images.