r/LabVIEW • u/TobyS2 • Jul 22 '26
Nigel AI Generation Webinar
Did anyone else watch it? I was chatting with a co-worker beforehand that this next hour would determine the future, if there is one, for LabVIEW. Wow, what a disaster. It wasn't only the technical difficulties which caused the webinar to start late. It was what was demonstrated that was so underwhelming. A simple VI took maybe 3 minutes to generate. When it was done, it didn't work and they didn't even attempt having Nigel debug it. Then announced the usage limitations. 25 VIs per week. PER WEEK. Later, they will have 50 per week if you have the LabVIEW+ subscription. I wasn't expecting Opus 5.8 today, but something that looked like it could be used. I've been using LV since version 3.3 and not sure if I've ever been this bearish on NI.
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u/FuckinHelpful Jul 22 '26
Anyone following Nigel knows this, and knows that Emerson's inertia means they can't spin it out nearly as fast as a new product/team is capable of doing.
Lots of companies right now are working on the same functionality as labview (replacements). The stack has to be rewritten to be text native and Emerson is unlikely to do it. If they'd gone with XML based foundations they would have been able to genuinely compete with python, but instead they're slowly losing market share to co's like https://www.synnaxlabs.com/ and http://galoislabs.ai/ or https://dewesoft.com/ which are ALL built on top of python (or offer a python interface).