Another class graduated.
One of my great joys is teaching the SMPS AEC.AI workshop twice a year to AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) professionals. This two-day intensive is AI bootcamp for AEC pros to get up to speed quickly on the latest in AI. By the end of the event, folks walk away with training and a toolkit of some of my best material, techniques, and methods that immediately power up their AI skills.
What’s always stunning to me is how much changes from workshop to workshop. I was updating my slides this past week in preparation for the workshop and literally 50% of my previous deck was cut, and a new 50% went in – things like reasoning models and how to prompt them, Deep Research prompts, n8n automation workflows, agentic AI, and so much more.
Even DeepSeek’s flagship models weren’t out at the previous workshop.
The pace of AI is changing so rapidly that I’m sure the workshop is already out of date. In fact, I know it is, but not in a hugely tangible way yet. But that’s okay. That’s the nature of AI.
The best part of these events isn’t the teaching, at least for me. It’s the conversations, listening, learning what real problems people are trying to solve and how AI might – or might not – be a way to solve them. Nothing accelerates my own progress with AI than listening to the intricate details of real problems.
Wonderful to catch up with friends as well, old and new, like
Congratulations to the graduates of the Spring 2025 AEC.AI class, and see you in Toronto in a few weeks for SMPS Ontario, and then this fall for the Denver SMPS AEC.AI!
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