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Maryrose Lyons has spent 25 years helping firms through every wave of new technology, and generative AI is the biggest she's seen. These days she runs the AI Institute, working alongside construction, engineering, architecture and QS teams across Ireland, the UK and EMEA, and has upskilled more than 2,800 professionals along the way. She's the voice behind the ChattingGPT podcast. Each bi-weekly edition pairs a piece of her thinking on AI at work with the latest episode. Pull up a chair with more than 5,800 readers.
Hi Reader! An architect friend asked me something over coffee a few weeks ago and I still haven't managed to put it down. If AI halves the hours she spends on a project, does that saving go back to the client? Or are they paying her for the skill? She's well ahead of most in her use of AI, she's just asking the uncomfortable question: the better she gets, does that mean invoicing less? Or does it mean invoicing more - more clients, and a premium for being the practice that delivers faster?...
Hi Reader! Someone asked me to ring them back in half an hour last Friday. So I did a few small jobs first, felt the time was up, reached for the phone, and only fifteen minutes had passed. Half an hour's work done in fifteen, and my body clock was still reading thirty. This is time being compressed. Funny at the time. Less funny by Sunday, once I'd added it to the tiredness, the short fuse and the broken sleep and realised I was closer to burnout than I'd like to admit. Not there yet. Caught...
Hi Reader! Two documents leave your office this week. Both drafted with AI. Both signed off in a hurry on a Friday. The first is an options report on a private commercial fit-out, prepared for a paying client. Perfectly fine. Internal-to-client work, no label needed, nothing to declare. The second is a public consultation statement for a council flood-defence scheme your firm is bidding on. Same tool, same engineer, same five minutes of polish. That one now needs a visible "AI-assisted" note...