Kenny Shultz

Director of Engineering at PermitZIP. The Blueprint Tour Podcast Co-host ( Part of an awesome team.

[Kenny Shultz @PermitZIPhvac]

Who would be interested in a webinar on “AI for Professional Engineers: From Fundamentals to Live Projects”?

We’d walk through how we use AI at PermitZIP, share real project examples, and do live engineering work using our own AI harness. We’d cover the fundamentals, show how it all fits into our daily workflows, and leave time for Q&A for anyone curious about getting started.

Comment below if you’d attend. What would you want us to cover?

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@le_bullyproof @JesseBWatter6 Yes. As opposed to attacking someone with a 12” knife for having your feelings hurt.

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@kurtsaltrichter How much of that revenue could come from employers paying for AI per employee?

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@greg_ip I’ll admit I haven’t dug into the numbers in this study. But what does it assume businesses will spend on AI per employee? It’s not hard to imagine many jobs coming with a $200–$1k monthly token budget. How much of that 9% could business spending alone account for?

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Sure, he has to support his prediction. But “AI has done basically nothing to GDP” is also a claim. You have a burden of proof for that too. His prediction being unproven doesn’t make yours proven.

You’re both saying things confidently without proof and making wild predictions about the future.

You may have more in common than you think.

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@darthbriboy

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@BlueHouseGames1 respect that...why does it bother you though that other people do it differently?

[Kenny Shultz @PermitZIPhvac]

@darthbriboy ok, darthbriboy 😂

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@BlueHouseGames1 That's wild. Seems like at this point, you'd at least use AI for a little bit of the workflow.

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@Sylvannee1 @PresidentTimTim 😂

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No one really cares, though.

If you’re an artist, make art.

The arts have always been full of pretentious people with an overwhelming need to tell everyone else what art is and isn’t.

Get over yourself and make something. Use AI. Or don’t. Have fun. Print it out. Cut it up. Turn it into a stencil. Screen print with it. Shred it and make a sculpture. Do whatever the fuck you want.

You don’t get to define art for everyone else, Michael, just like they don’t get to define it for you.

I can already see the angry replies. Just remember: you don’t need my permission to make what you like, and nobody needs yours.

As long as I’ve been in the arts, artists have been so fucking full of themselves. Every hour spent shit-talking someone else’s art is an hour you could’ve spent making your own. Put that energy into creating something. Or spend it here on X. Maybe shitposting is your art. Have at it.

This argument isn’t new. The trends change, and someone always appoints themselves the authority on what’s allowed to count as art.

Just make stuff. Nobody needs your permission.

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@MrrrOzi @snactown @RepGregMurphy Great way to think of it

[Kenny Shultz @PermitZIPhvac]

I encourage you to experiment more with it, particularly the frontier models available through paid subscriptions. With your expertise and experience, you may find ways to put it to work on the very problems you’re describing, including the bottlenecks in getting patients into nursing home beds.

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@vineerpasam Had you adopted AI into your coding workflow prior to losing the position?

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@AstronomyRyan @AIandDesign @DrFuturo_ Whenever you google something you better scroll past the AI summary and find your information the hard way 😂

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@AstronomyRyan @DrFuturo_ @AIandDesign Sounds like you don’t do much of anything at all.

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The best engineers in the world are using AI. But please, go on about how it's useless.

Meanwhile, imbeciles who don’t do this professionally, don't have an employer that can afford the tokens, don’t use frontier models, or tried ChatGPT once two years ago act like they have any credibility in this conversation. Basically, a bunch of gamers still living in their mom’s basement talking shit over the internet producing nothing of real value to anyone, ever.

I'm not AI pilled, but I've been working and researchign and building around this since early access to GPT2.

There are legitimate debates around AI: copyright, replicating someone’s likeness or voice without consent, energy consumption, etc. I’m less persuaded by the copyright argument, but empathize with why artists are frustrated (I'm also a musician, I get it). The likeness problem is terrifying. Energy consumption is a legitimate concern, but nuclear can help address it.

But the most foolish argument is pretending that prompting, reviewing results, testing, and refining a design somehow doesn’t count as work. Developers have spent decades Googling, reading Stack Overflow, and adapting other people’s documentation and examples. Now a tool can produce working code directly, sometimes in one shot, and suddenly using it means you’re not doing anything?

What an insanely asinine hill to die on. Keeping your head in the sand on that hill is a great way to put yourself out of a job...which is what we're seeing in software right now, and increasingly in architecture and engineering (where I run my business).

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@AstronomyRyan @DrFuturo_ @AIandDesign cliche AF, think of something original