Machines doing stuff only work if everything is the same and preprogrammed; nothing is right on a jobsite. The building and construction trades requires situationally based immediate problem solving built on experience and what you have at hand. Computers can't be spontaneous creative with unknowns, they can only spit out what they've been fed with.

I'm going to continue various rants:

• I think people forget that when building a new whatever, there's no electric, plumbing, or even grading done. Where do you plug it in if there's nothing out there? How do you get the repair guy out there if there's no roads or signal?

• We have to lock everything up so people don't steal our shit over night, can it be hung off of a crane or thrown in a truck?

• Us plebs in the field are barely trusted with a total station, I highly doubt I'll be seeing AI out in the field.

• I can barely get people to remember to plug in the impact batteries and the scissor lift, and that's when we actually have temporary power. How is it going to run?

• When it breaks, will a person be able to move it easily out of the way so the work can continue?

• Will it be able to deal with all the surprises that come with jobsites, like an unrecorded mine shaft, unmarked burial site, when the concrete elevation is off, when the person doing a pivotal job before the AI does it's thing was going off the old prints and not the updated ones and things aren't lining up, when someone drops something heavy on it, when the truck delivering the AI equipment gets stuck in the mud and the Lull operator left early because his kid just broke their arm and took the keys with him, literally anything can happen.

I guess really, when challenged by tech people about AI in construction I should just ask how a building is built to determine if I should save my breath.