This is the last episode of Arc 2. The first two asked what these tools can do. This one asks what happens when they get it wrong, who is still on the hook when they do, and what that means for the people coming up in this profession.

Mike Soldan at Egnyte says the bigger risk now is reference content that's five years old, not a hallucination. Randall Stevens at AVAIL points out that running automation across a whole drawing set can leave someone checking every piece of it. Oliver Goldman at Autodesk says the accountability stays with whoever delivers the work, whatever tools they used. Holger Kreienbrink at Graphisoft expects people to check AI output less and less until they sign without looking. Scott Reynolds at UpCodes tested its review against the 1981 Hyatt walkway collapse and the Champlain Towers collapse. Theodoros Galanos asks whether we hold AI to a standard we've never measured ourselves against. Then the harder question: who do firms still hire, and how does the next generation learn when the grunt work goes away? Roderick Bates (Chaos), Marty Rozmanith (Skema), Matt Wash and Ariel Cooke-Zamora (Bimbeats), Prasanta Bose and Michael Jansen (TwinMaster), Jesper Wallgren (Finch), Gavin Nicholls, and Campbell Yule weigh in, and close on the firm of 2030 and why billing by the hour gives the productivity gain away.

This episode is especially relevant for principals who put their stamp on drawings, firm leaders deciding how much to trust these tools, and anyone responsible for training the next generation when the work they learned on is disappearing.

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