Is AI taking our jobs?
I recently came across a reel on Instagram, by Shawn Kanungo, a recognized strategist and a keynote speaker. There was thrilling excitement in his voice as he announced the Sketchup + Claude partnership. He spoke about how an image of a floor plan can be input to Claude to generate a 3D model. Now, we all saw that coming. We are witnessing the boom of AI with each blink of an eye. I, myself have been chatting with Chat-GPT for under 3 years now. The time for architecture collab was due soon. Shawn's words intrigued me and so, I spent some time Saturday morning doing the same. I took an image of a floor plan of a random apartment and asked Claude Opus 4.6 to generate a CAD file. 1st prompt - "is there a way for me to give you a floor plan and you export it into a cad file or a 2D rhino file?" However, it couldn't produce a CAD file but a dxf file that could be used on various software’s. The input for the first version was plain and simple. It did not do a good j...