AI Upstarts

Andrew Browning

AI Upstarts is a podcast about the engineers who are actually using AI today, not the bosses talking about it in theory. Most conversations about AI in engineering happen at the top, in general terms. This one doesn't. AI Upstarts: Engineering's AI Innovators in Their Own Words goes straight to the people doing the real work: the engineers and environmental professionals quietly using AI to change how the job gets done, often well ahead of their own firms. In each episode, one of them walks us through what they're using AI for, the tools and setup behind it, the difference it's made, and where they think it's all heading. No jargon, no sales pitch, just practitioners showing what they've built, in their own words. Hosted by Andrew Browning and James Griffith P.E.

Episodes

  1. Jun 15

    "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

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AI Upstarts is a podcast about the engineers who are actually using AI today, not the bosses talking about it in theory. Most conversations about AI in engineering happen at the top, in general terms. This one doesn't. AI Upstarts: Engineering's AI Innovators in Their Own Words goes straight to the people doing the real work: the engineers and environmental professionals quietly using AI to change how the job gets done, often well ahead of their own firms. In each episode, one of them walks us through what they're using AI for, the tools and setup behind it, the difference it's made, and where they think it's all heading. No jargon, no sales pitch, just practitioners showing what they've built, in their own words. Hosted by Andrew Browning and James Griffith P.E.

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    Andrew Browning
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