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Why is that surprising? It's like why AI art is a running joke to real artists, and LLMs are a joke to good software engineers etc. Random text/image generator

Why is that surprising? It's like why AI art is a running joke to real artists, and LLMs are a joke to good software engineers etc. Random text/image generators have no intelligence, no knowledge of design, building regulations, engineering, physics. A fun little tool to set up boilerplate is its peak usefulness.

UncleMeat 3y ago
There's a specific disease where it is incredibly easy to think that other fields you aren't an expert in are trivial.
- araes 3y ago
  If this is aimed at me, its not that I believe the act of creating generative architecture software is trivial. Perhaps too flippant above. I believe it is probably quite challenging. Which is an excellent reason to create such a software, because it's much harder for someone to quickly steal or release a competing product. I was only surprised someone was not immediately using this thread to advertise their house generator.
  - jhugo 3y ago
    “Quite challenging” is an understatement. The problem is far too big for the tech startup model. You would need to get a bunch of expensive skilled engineers, and a bunch of expensive domain experts (from many domains, since “building houses” is a massive problem space with thousands of sub-domains), and work on it for probably years before you had an MVP. It’s not the type of startup that easily attracts investment.
    - bruce511 3y ago
      Even if you could find investors,I'm not sure you'd find any customers. Firstly, only a tiny fraction of people are interested in building a house. And the number that build 2 are a rounding error. Developers already have architects on staff, already have libraries of plans, why would they pay for this? Then, every detail of the generated plan would need to be checked. Every. Single. Detail. Most people who build a house do do because they want to make a mark, or they need something they can't find. They are all literally edge cases. They'll sit with an architect for hours trying to get that dream out of their heads onto paper, adapting to limitations of budget, planning approval, local regulations, budget, site, budget and so on. There is no market for a product like this.

UncleMeat 3y ago

There's a specific disease where it is incredibly easy to think that other fields you aren't an expert in are trivial.

araes 3y ago
If this is aimed at me, its not that I believe the act of creating generative architecture software is trivial. Perhaps too flippant above. I believe it is probably quite challenging. Which is an excellent reason to create such a software, because it's much harder for someone to quickly steal or release a competing product. I was only surprised someone was not immediately using this thread to advertise their house generator.
- jhugo 3y ago
  “Quite challenging” is an understatement. The problem is far too big for the tech startup model. You would need to get a bunch of expensive skilled engineers, and a bunch of expensive domain experts (from many domains, since “building houses” is a massive problem space with thousands of sub-domains), and work on it for probably years before you had an MVP. It’s not the type of startup that easily attracts investment.
  - bruce511 3y ago
    Even if you could find investors,I'm not sure you'd find any customers. Firstly, only a tiny fraction of people are interested in building a house. And the number that build 2 are a rounding error. Developers already have architects on staff, already have libraries of plans, why would they pay for this? Then, every detail of the generated plan would need to be checked. Every. Single. Detail. Most people who build a house do do because they want to make a mark, or they need something they can't find. They are all literally edge cases. They'll sit with an architect for hours trying to get that dream out of their heads onto paper, adapting to limitations of budget, planning approval, local regulations, budget, site, budget and so on. There is no market for a product like this.