AI Upstarts

"You've Got to AI Yourself": James Griffith P.E., Co-Founder & Chief Engineer, SchemeFlow

AI Upstarts goes straight to the engineers actually using AI today, in their own words. First up, James Griffith P.E., Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of SchemeFlow.James walks Andrew through how he actually uses Claude day to day. Drop an old report in, ask it to strip out the project-specific detail and generalize it for any project, and a few iterations later you have a template the whole team can reuse. It is the kind of systematic reuse engineering has talked about for years but rarely managed.He is just as candid about what the tech world gets wrong about the industry: that a building is not algorithmic, that two lines on a drawing can carry a hundred negotiations behind them, and the messy reality of getting things built.No theory, no pitch, just one engineer showing what he has built and where he thinks it is all heading.In this episode:From finishing Gaudí's Sagrada Família to engineering glass that survives earthquakesTurning a finished report into a project-agnostic template in minutes with ClaudePlugging AI into live data sources to auto-draft existing-conditions sections"First to be second": the innate caution of even the most innovative firmsThe one task James wishes AI would take off his plate for good