EPISODE · Mar 11, 2026 · 18 MIN
S01 Episode 04- I Opened Stable Diffusion. I Never Closed It. What AI is actually like in real life.
from The Geeks Design Show - "Where great architecture begins." · host Divya Goel
Hello, my nerdy, geeky, ridiculously talented designers — Episode Five is here. And this one is for the practitioners.Ar. Md Abdul Vasi is a COA-registered architect, BIM-VDC specialist, and AI-integrated workflow practitioner based in Hyderabad, India. He's worked on hospitals, high-rise towers, luxury villas, and now — remotely — on restaurant chains across Canada. And he started his AI journey the same way most of us do: alone, with Stable Diffusion open and a YouTube tutorial running on another screen.In this episode, Divya and Vasi have the conversation architects actually need to have. Not the AI hype version. The real version — what works, what breaks, what clients misunderstand, and what's worth betting your career on. In this episode:• How Stable Diffusion changed Vasi's client conversations in the first week he used it• The 'expectation inflation problem' — why AI visualisations can create confusion at the wrong project stage• What's actually in Vasi's AI toolkit (D5 Render, Stable Diffusion, AI documentation tools) and what each one earns• Why AI in healthcare architecture is fundamentally different from AI in a restaurant fitout• The case for AI in documentation and specifications — not just visualisation• How cross-border practice from India to Canada is becoming viable partly because of AI• Vasi's concept of 'strategic AI fluency' — the skill that separates the next decade's leaders• Homework: your first generative tool experiment AND the workflow task you're secretly dying to give to a machine Tools mentioned: Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, D5 Render, Chaos Corona, Revit, BIM workflows, AI specification/documentation tools.Drop your homework answer in the comments — or find Divya at @thegeeksdesignstudio on Instagram. Episode Six might just feature what you share. Hosted by Divya Goel | Architect & Design Technologist | @thegeeksdesignstudioGuest: Ar. Md Abdul Vasi | Registered Architect (COA) | BIM-VDC Specialist | @versatile.architects
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Hello, my nerdy, geeky, ridiculously talented designers — Episode Five is here. And this one is for the practitioners.Ar. Md Abdul Vasi is a COA-registered architect, BIM-VDC specialist, and AI-integrated workflow practitioner based in Hyderabad, India. He's worked on hospitals, high-rise towers, luxury villas, and now — remotely — on restaurant chains across Canada. And he started his AI journey the same way most of us do: alone, with Stable Diffusion open and a YouTube tutorial running on another screen.In this episode, Divya and Vasi have the conversation architects actually need to have. Not the AI hype version. The real version — what works, what breaks, what clients misunderstand, and what's worth betting your career on. In this episode:• How Stable Diffusion changed Vasi's client conversations in the first week he used it• The 'expectation inflation problem' — why AI visualisations can create confusion at the wrong project stage• What's actually in Vasi's AI toolkit (D5 Render, Stable Diffusion, AI documentation tools) and what each one earns• Why AI in healthcare architecture is fundamentally different from AI in a restaurant fitout• The case for AI in documentation and specifications — not just visualisation• How cross-border practice from India to Canada is becoming viable partly because of AI• Vasi's concept of 'strategic AI fluency' — the skill that separates the next decade's leaders• Homework: your first generative tool experiment AND the workflow task you're secretly dying to give to a machine Tools mentioned: Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, D5 Render, Chaos Corona, Revit, BIM workflows, AI specification/documentation tools.Drop your homework answer in the comments — or find Divya at @thegeeksdesignstudio on Instagram. Episode Six might just feature what you share. Hosted by Divya Goel | Architect & Design Technologist | @thegeeksdesignstudioGuest: Ar. Md Abdul Vasi | Registered Architect (COA) | BIM-VDC Specialist | @versatile.architects
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