I wanted to become a Master Builder. Someone with complete competence in logistics, pricing, design, and execution. With that level of control, surely one could find drastic scales of efficiency. Into practice, however, it looked like there wasn’t effective software to actually enable an architect to become a Master Builder.
The older I get, however, I think more and more of humans building the tower of Babel together–they were being successful in building it taller and taller–until the old testament God decided to “change their languages” and cause mass disruption on the job site when all of a sudden RFIs and submittals are written in Russian Cryllic and the scale is in Metric, when it ought to be in imperial, and the language English.
Now, however, Babylon is rebuilding itself. Large language models will enable us to speak languages and understand languages that we may never have been able to understand before. These languages are slightly different than words, however. These are the languages of architecture, engineering, debt, equity, design, construction, operation, execution and intent.
The closer the digital singularity, the more obtainable “master builder” status is.
For my part, I will continue to build TestFit into its own Architecture language model, so builders, engineers, and the world might understand Architecture’s value, but more-so will we start investing in costing, logistics, and everything outside of form making.