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AI Costs Are Quietly Exploding, HS2 now £102.7bn, Waymo Steals Luggage
Description
"Mandating how many AI tokens your engineers burn isn't a productivity metric. It has nothing to do with outcomes."
That's Dustin Devan, CEO of Ediphi and it's one of the sharpest takes on the AI spend debate we've had on the show
This week on Bricks, Bucks and Bytes we're joined by Cameron Page of ClearStory, processing $3.5B in change orders every month, and Sophia Millar of Sonnaball Instruments, catching weld defects in real time before they ever reach inspection.
Tune in to find out about:
✅ Why enterprise AI bills keep rising even as token costs fall
✅ How ClearStory is replacing email-and-spreadsheet change order chaos for 7,500 companies
✅ Why 1.3 million categorised change orders might be construction's most underrated dataset
✅ How acoustic weld detection is transforming prefab quality control
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:56 Reunion and Introduction
01:57 AI Tokens and Their Costs
07:57 Managing AI Token Usage
11:21 Balancing Speed and Customer Needs
15:13 Efficiency in AI Usage
20:21 Waymo's Customer Service Incident
21:57 Discussion on Expensive Rail Projects
22:01 The Cost of High-Speed Rail in the UK
26:03 Comparing Costs: What Could $100 Billion Buy?
27:44 Debating Income Tax and Jeff Bezos' Proposal
30:18 The Rise of Trillionaires: Elon Musk's Potential
32:07 Data Centers in Space: A Feasible Future?
35:09 ClearStory: Revolutionizing Change Order Management
42:00 Streamlining Change Order Management
45:36 ClearStory's Market Position and Growth
47:09 Leveraging Change Order Data for Insights
50:01 Innovations in Welding Defect Detection
56:32 The Role of AI in Welding Quality Control