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+# AI in Estimating
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+Most estimators are already pigeon holed into poor SaaS like Accubid and the rest already,
+but the need to increase efficiency with AI will be the nail in the coffin.
+The myth that "full package" estimating software is most efficient
+will only be exacerbated by the inclusion of AI features
+that ought to have been available for decades already.
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+It has unfortunately been the case that construction estimators have, by and large,
+been unable to recognize the bushels of low hanging fruit for automation in our field for decades.
+Now that AI grifters have run out of other industries to sell to,
+we are first introduced to supposedly revolutionary concepts like:
+
+* automatically reading and setting the scale of a drawing
+
+Estimating specific AI features, being unpredictable literally by design,
+will inevitably be inconsistent in reliability between implementations;
+a glaring issue since they will be provided by apps with no external compatibility.
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+Most of these features are far better implemented with traditional computing.