Why are you so confident YOUR job will be the exception?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've been hoping AI could make most of my job easier as an architect.
But nope, still have to work it out, then rework it, then change my mind because there's a better solution (because it takes a few false moves to realize that). I wish AI could get permitting documents together, figure out how to detail that gutter integrated into the roof so nobody has to ever look at it, etc.. I wish it could tell me if the mason we eventually hire is skilled enough to do that crazy corner I want to design because some of them are really good and some are just not.

This might be one of the best use cases for AI in your particular field but it is going to actually require you to hire someone to put it together for you.

Well, the issue with permitting documents is that each jurisdiction has different requirements - from how the sheets are formatted to differing building codes. AND each jurisdiction is continually evolving and changing the requirements.
We've always done these documents ourselves which is why we know this. The most annoying part is that it's constantly changing. And then there's the mood of the plan examiner you get assigned. Some be just fine with stuff, and others will get persnickety. It's kind of like trying to mail a package at the post office internationally.

Yes, that’s WHY that task is a perfect candidate for automation and AI. Someone enterprising will build a tool for architects to get them ahead on all of the manual aspects of this task. So your drafts may not be perfect but you could save hours. The trick is that most of what you are describing would require perhaps a combination of coding and AI, which is why you can’t get ChatGPT to do this task.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think AI can do my job, any more than I think the internet can do my job or that google search can do my job.

I do think, though, that being in my early 50s, at a publicly traded company with increasing cost pressures and a desire to meet Wall Street expectations every quarter, and an global economy that sux right now and for the foreseeable future, I’ll be lucky to make it even 1 more year w my company, let alone keep a job for 8-10 more years until I retire.

That's your ego, and amygdala, talking out of fear. You want to believe that, but it's apparent it is not true, even from the minimal info you give.

What is this psychobabble? I’m not afraid of AI. I’m more afraid of my corporate overlords cutting my white collar job to meet Wall Street profitability expectations. My CEO makes $50M+ a year; that’s who I’m afraid of. The corporate system is rigged, if you haven’t noticed. Also I’m afraid of not being able to replace my job in my 50s. Both of those fears are more much realistic in the next 5-10 years than AI replacing my role.

[Anonymous]

I'm a graphic artist. AI can help my process but it can't replace me, at least for the near future. I've seen clients try to use AI to create professional illustrations/graphics, but many of them end up using their AI creations as mockups for me to recreate it better, in my style, with my creative and technical insights, and level of refinement.

Perhaps one day AI will be good enough to take over, but hopefully I'll be retired by then.

[Anonymous]

I buy and operate real estate. Its 50% about relationships and 50% about experience/ability to execute. AI is helping on the execution front, but it won't make the phone ring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been hoping AI could make most of my job easier as an architect.
But nope, still have to work it out, then rework it, then change my mind because there's a better solution (because it takes a few false moves to realize that). I wish AI could get permitting documents together, figure out how to detail that gutter integrated into the roof so nobody has to ever look at it, etc.. I wish it could tell me if the mason we eventually hire is skilled enough to do that crazy corner I want to design because some of them are really good and some are just not.

This might be one of the best use cases for AI in your particular field but it is going to actually require you to hire someone to put it together for you.

Well, the issue with permitting documents is that each jurisdiction has different requirements - from how the sheets are formatted to differing building codes. AND each jurisdiction is continually evolving and changing the requirements.
We've always done these documents ourselves which is why we know this. The most annoying part is that it's constantly changing. And then there's the mood of the plan examiner you get assigned. Some be just fine with stuff, and others will get persnickety. It's kind of like trying to mail a package at the post office internationally.

Yes, that’s WHY that task is a perfect candidate for automation and AI. Someone enterprising will build a tool for architects to get them ahead on all of the manual aspects of this task. So your drafts may not be perfect but you could save hours. The trick is that most of what you are describing would require perhaps a combination of coding and AI, which is why you can’t get ChatGPT to do this task.

You don't need AI to do this task, you could have a form library that is updated as a service, and perhaps a UI for walking you through inputs. If nobody offers that already, is it because there's no money in it?

Same with legal - people will say AI can write a contract or a brief. But people have been using templates or copying older work for decades and there's nothing AI about that. If anything, AI would make it more expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been hoping AI could make most of my job easier as an architect.
But nope, still have to work it out, then rework it, then change my mind because there's a better solution (because it takes a few false moves to realize that). I wish AI could get permitting documents together, figure out how to detail that gutter integrated into the roof so nobody has to ever look at it, etc.. I wish it could tell me if the mason we eventually hire is skilled enough to do that crazy corner I want to design because some of them are really good and some are just not.

This might be one of the best use cases for AI in your particular field but it is going to actually require you to hire someone to put it together for you.

Well, the issue with permitting documents is that each jurisdiction has different requirements - from how the sheets are formatted to differing building codes. AND each jurisdiction is continually evolving and changing the requirements.
We've always done these documents ourselves which is why we know this. The most annoying part is that it's constantly changing. And then there's the mood of the plan examiner you get assigned. Some be just fine with stuff, and others will get persnickety. It's kind of like trying to mail a package at the post office internationally.

Yes, that’s WHY that task is a perfect candidate for automation and AI. Someone enterprising will build a tool for architects to get them ahead on all of the manual aspects of this task. So your drafts may not be perfect but you could save hours. The trick is that most of what you are describing would require perhaps a combination of coding and AI, which is why you can’t get ChatGPT to do this task.

You don't need AI to do this task, you could have a form library that is updated as a service, and perhaps a UI for walking you through inputs. If nobody offers that already, is it because there's no money in it?

Same with legal - people will say AI can write a contract or a brief. But people have been using templates or copying older work for decades and there's nothing AI about that. If anything, AI would make it more expensive.

I’m a lawyer and AI is a leap in technology the same way document templates were a leap in technology and online legal databases were a leap in technology. AI might not do the work for you but it might make it feasible to build in automations where it wasn’t profitable enough or worth the effort.

In my government role, I have a lot of random tasks that have been thrown on my plate and I’ve used AI to build in Visual Basic automation or use JavaScript on pdfs in some of my work and actually save myself a ton of time. Before the LLM was available I was not going to take the time to learn VBA or JavaScript code, but the AI walked me through improving my processes and it was actually a lot of fun and has saved me a lot of tedium, and I didn’t have to hire someone or get a contract.

[Anonymous]

Hmm. I'm a playground monitor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a senior level manager listening to people’s problems all day and solving them through personal relationships, mediating interpersonal drama and dysfunction, big picture thinking and goal setting, running meetings.

No I’m not worried at all. I would welcome AI taking my job I am tired.

More and more people are turning to A.I. for exactly what you do, and more such as psychotherapy, and finding it much more helpful than human professionals obviously, as A.I. can be like millions of professionals all rolled into one.

But in the workplace, that's not what AI will be used for. At least not anytime in the foreseeable future.

[Anonymous]

I’m a private chef.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I design and create expensive, one of a kind custom wedding gowns.

I am both a valuable, high skilled, artisan and personlized, luxury, once in a lifetime, emotional experience.

As long as there are people spending money on their weddings who do not want cheap, overpriced, mass produced in chinese sweatshops crap, I will have a market.

Off topic, but I wish you did an AMA thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because nobody wants to be a teacher.

This is where we are seeing the most progress. Your job is about to get a lot harder but more impactful with higher pay but higher qualification requirements.

[Anonymous]

Eh the doctors office uses AI to make appointments. Called to change it and guess what? They dont have record of an appointment being made except I have the text chain from AI showing that I was told I had an appointment.
So yeah.....

[Anonymous]

We aren’t even allowed to use AI on sensitive data yet, so it’s gonna be a bit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lawyer here. It can totally do my job. Not yet, but soon.

Really? I am a lawyer and when I use the AI tools, the product is basically like a college intern. It’s pretty far from being anything of quality. And that’s just for legal memos and briefs or document review — I don’t think it does much at all with on feet work or client advice that requires judgment and horse sense.

I do think for basic contracts, wills etc, it is pretty close to there — but the form programs have been doing that for a while. Same with simple taxe filings.

A very glib intern that knows nothing and has vast confidence in their (non-existent) abilities...

Yeah, I don't really know any lawyer (in litigation, regulatory areas) that is using AI to even do legal memos/ filings. Some have tried but found it more time-consuming than just drafting in the first instance. Mostly seems like a good way to get sanctioned.

[Anonymous]

There’s nothing I can do about it so I don’t care.