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bigwheels • today at 6:41 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I don't. A lot of what they do is "make work" that slows down building homes and spaces with dilbert-esque nit picks.


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pvab3 • today at 9:03 PM

I've reviewed dozens of sets of city and state AHJ review comments for housing. They sometimes take a full year and give less attention to the plans than even the worst contractor. Some aren't that bad, but many just have boilerplate review comments that are completely irrelevant to my drawings.

DolphinOverplan • today at 6:50 PM

Civil engineering rules are mostly written in blood and costly and dangerous accidents. At least in my country. If somewhere else inspectors don't provide actual value, they should either get regulated or good riddance and AI might actually be better. I feel old, sigh...

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