I need realiable engineering AI, not just for cost estimation. Most engineering use norm, so does most estimation tools, but there are many holes in those tools.
For example, I need to build a sanitary system, the cost will only say it is about xxx per unit. Some engineering tool can break it down to more detail, but it is far from perfect. you want to make 5m 2" tap water pipe. Tools only say you need xxx as the cost, and the job will take xxx man hours. =an AI should break it more detail, such as you need 2 pipe @ 4meter, which means you have 37.5% waste on pipe. you need 3 joints, prepare 3 elbow 90" because you do not provide the drawing, you need 10m tape, the tools are xxx and many more. not just cost.
For a real case, today I had a problem that I ran out of sand. Sand is cheap but when you are lacking of 20-50kg, you can not buy them cheaply, the price would spike 2-3x because material stores know you get fuck up with that. The most expensive one is not the sand, but due to no sand available, two of my workers went idle for a half day.
If there is a reliable AI, I could just enter my stocks and put the Workfront and it should be able to predict what trouble I will have soon. if it is a good one, it can even suggest people who want to DIY something, from preparing raw material, consumables and the tools they are going to need. they might even draw the shop drawing automatically and everyone can do DIY on larger scale
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