AI Costs Are Quietly Exploding, HS2 now £102.7bn, Waymo Steals Luggage

"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 showThis 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🎧 Listen now on Spotify and YouTube#bricksandbytes #bricksbucksandbytes #aec #construction #constructiontech #aiOur Sponsors:BreadCrumb- 50,000+ projects globally. All running safer, faster, with Breadcrumb. - breadcrumb.coAphex is the multiplayer planning platform where construction teams plan together, stay aligned, and deliver projects faster – check out aphex.coArchdesk - “The #1 Construction Management Software for Growing Companies - Manage your projects from Tender to Handover” check archdesk.comChapters00:00 Intro00:56 Reunion and Introduction01:57 AI Tokens and Their Costs07:57 Managing AI Token Usage11:21 Balancing Speed and Customer Needs15:13 Efficiency in AI Usage20:21 Waymo's Customer Service Incident21:57 Discussion on Expensive Rail Projects22:01 The Cost of High-Speed Rail in the UK26:03 Comparing Costs: What Could $100 Billion Buy?27:44 Debating Income Tax and Jeff Bezos' Proposal30:18 The Rise of Trillionaires: Elon Musk's Potential32:07 Data Centers in Space: A Feasible Future?35:09 ClearStory: Revolutionizing Change Order Management42:00 Streamlining Change Order Management45:36 ClearStory's Market Position and Growth47:09 Leveraging Change Order Data for Insights50:01 Innovations in Welding Defect Detection56:32 The Role of AI in Welding Quality Control