A superintendent pulls up a plan on a tablet. It’s three revisions old. A subcontractor pours concrete against a spec nobody updated. Nobody catches it until the inspector does. Research from PlanGrid and FMI Corporation
AI creativity has stopped living inside single-purpose tools. Creators used to open one platform for images, another for video, and a third for editing — three logins, three learning curves, one idea getting diluted along
A child comes home from school with a math worksheet and stalls on the same problem for an hour. A parent opens ChatGPT, types the question, and gets an instant answer. The worksheet gets finished.
AI did not make outsourced development cheaper. It moved the bottleneck. Writing code stopped being the constraint, so you are now buying review capacity, architectural judgment, and QA throughput instead of developer-hours. Vendors who understood