Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
CAD Benchmarks: grading AI where the geometry gets real
An open benchmark measures how well AI models build editable CAD parts through live MCP tool calls.
Why it surfacedCAD Benchmarks scores more than the final shape: it checks exact geometry, editability, and the model’s full tool-call trajectory. Its public leaderboard covers 24 tasks, with confidence intervals shown plainly and a pre-alpha methodology that even documents a bug caught during construction.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.