There's a commodity part of everyone's job that people do not enjoy doing, and you don't really get paid enough to do it. If I can stick with the high value, would you rather have 100 engineers building out at $1,000 an hour or 1000 engineers building out at $100?
Randy 00:19:10.200 - 00:20:39.418 That is an easy solution for sure to come up and pick that one.
So I wanted to ask you because I know that there are two other areas, specifically because we could go down a long list of ways that AI is going to fundamentally change the way that design professionals, engineers, and architects practice on a daily basis. But I want to talk also about some of the other aspects of this industry that are not so much sore points but are some of the bigger challenges that we're facing. And we talked about this before we started recording, the adoption or incorporation of artificial intelligence, or AI into the whole aspect of recruitment and retention, which when you ask everybody in the design industry space, it is the number one problem that all design firms are struggling with. Our people talent - how do we find enough? First of all, they're not printing enough architects and engineers coming out of school. So that's the first issue. We've got to get more kids through, even as early as elementary school, thinking about the design industry space as a profession. But even for the firms right now, that's all well and fine in the next ten or 15 years, but I need some butts and seats right now and I can't get them. How will AI, or how is AI - are you noticing or seeing what AI is able to do in this whole recruitment and retention space? KPReddy 00:20:39.594 - 00:25:15.810 So there are a couple of things. I'm in the business of telling real stories from real people. I literally had to call this morning from one of my former interns. They have an undergrad and master's degree in structural engineering from one of the top engineering schools in the country, and they quit their job. And when I said, I, are you leaving the profession? They said I was so bored sitting at my computer doing calculations. My boss was boring. I don't think I was learning a whole lot from them. And this is, you know, I felt bad. I hung in there longer than I should have because I've invested so heavily in this education. But I had no idea how boring this thing was. And so I've said I think you were working for the wrong person, was my first reaction.
KPReddy Email: kp@shadow.vc Website: Shadow Ventures
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