Borg

We just started using Claude, I had been using Chat GPT for coding tools and such. The jury is out from me on Claude, but Chat GPT I thought was really good at creating/coding custom tools. I have not yet used an AI to do actual Take-off however.

Currently, I am using Claude to create templates. The building supply company I work for does not supply everything, so I am customizing it to fit our inventory and equations I received from someone doing takeoffs for the last 40 years. I did not think I would use AI as much in this profession as I currently do, but it is so fast at calculations and figures I just can't justify the time saved not to use it.

None of them (Gemini, Claude, GPT) were able to take the column schedule shown below and provide a correct list of column dimensions & heights for each floor (I provided the floor elevations to the LLMs in my prompt).

This was a relatively easy schedule to read with very little variation in column sizes, so I am not impressed nor invested into any of them yet.

@Jes, was this using our MCP, or just a screenshot + copied floor elevations in AI? Not sure if there would be a difference or not; just curious.

I would like the challenge to see if AI can give you the info you are looking for lol. The image was too poor quality for my agent to do anything with.

@Lorin no it was just my prior experience directly with the LLMs through their interfaces.

@Shawn I don't remember which project that was off the top of my head, but here is an even easier one with elevations provided, and the text is written horizontal instead of vertical