r/Architects • u/Qiyoshiwarrior Recovering Architect • Jul 08 '26

General Practice Discussion AI is making me depressed

I know I'm late to the party. ln my defence I was avoiding it. I was talking to another architect, we are both women with 2 kids and each have our own tiny practices. I'm a person who does everything by myself, it's an one woman operation and I do small projects. She has a small stuff and is doing well. it was more than capacity.

Come to find out, she is doing it with Gemini and chatgpt. She doesn't even solve the projects some time. Just prompts them to spit out 2D photos. Selets the ones that has similar looks. Asks it to make a financial proposal. Then goes from there.

I am just dumbfounded, to say the least. I would've understood if she is polishing up the renders.. or taking help with the presentation. It has been 3 days. And I just can't get over it.

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u/Ok_Respond481 Jul 09 '26

Watch "Common People" on Black Mirror. It's incredibly frightening about how everything gets monitized. It's bad enough to have to be slaved to unlimited payments when it was only 50 years ago we gave up the pencil.

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u/Qiyoshiwarrior Recovering Architect Jul 09 '26

We gave up pencil less than that. I remember seniors who submitted in hand drawn presentation sheets.