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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 earthquakes
Turning a finished report into a project-agnostic template in minutes with Claude
Plugging AI into live data sources to auto-draft existing-conditions sections
"First to be second": the innate caution of even the most innovative firms
The one task James wishes AI would take off his plate for good