What AI Can Actually Do in a Real Firm Today
📰 Eleven AEC vendors, one question: what can your AI actually do in a real firm today? The honest answers were more useful than any demo.
Digital Transformation
241: From Autocomplete to Agent: Where AEC Actually Is
A conversation with industry vendors and practitioners about why AI tools in AEC often deliver value only on deterministic, repetitive tasks, the hype versus reality of autocomplete, copilot and agents, and the critical role of the AI harness.
My Favorite Moments from Episode 239 "You're Not Going Home Early"
💬 Thirty-one lines worth keeping from episode two of The Next AEC Tech Stack. Twelve voices on switching costs, muscle memory, and where the time you saved went.
My Favorite Moments from Episode 238 "Half Your Day Isn't Design"
Forty-one moments worth paying attention to from episode one of The Next AEC Tech Stack. Eleven voices on the technology tax, the fear of the algorithm, and what a new tool costs a firm.
They'll Consume the Ten Hours
📰 Designers still take the ten hours. Randall Stevens says the new tools don't give Friday back, they fill it with more options. This edition closes the BIM 2.0 arc on where judgment stops and what lock-in you already accepted.
Polishing the Prison Bars From the Other Side
📰 Gavin Nicholls calls it "polishing the prison bars from the other side." Eleven BIM 2.0 builders and users on what switching platforms actually costs a firm, in time, culture, and money.
239: You're Not Going Home Early
A conversation with Gavin Nicholls, Carl Christensen, and nine other people building and using BIM 2.0 tools about the real cost of switching platforms, sunk-cost bias, and why adoption stalls even when the tool is better.