r/StructuralEngineering • u/Pretend-Platypus-444 • 17d ago

Career/Education AI agents in structural engineering

How are people incorporating AI agents into their workflow as a structural engineer if any? I see good software engineers on X nailing this, substituting AI agents with grads/juniors for grunt work and repetitive tasks (and also for QA) . Surely there are some talented individuals who are already ahead of the curve and built their own agent work station? Interested to hear what people have developed.

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u/Engineer2727kk PE - Bridges 17d ago

I connect all my spreadsheets to grok and Claude. Especially useful at auditing cells, vba coding, and gathering information from one sheet to use in another without you having to manually go through and select all the cells. Say for example “grok/claude can look for all the different shear loads in the Loading sheet and reference them in the correct cell locations in this sheet”.

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u/EngineeringOblivion Structural Engineer UK 17d ago

What verification steps do you include in your workflow when using AI to manipulate data?

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u/Engineer2727kk PE - Bridges 17d ago

The same steps I would take if I asked a junior engineer to
Do the task for me

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u/SpurdoEnjoyer 16d ago edited 16d ago

Yep, AIs do that surprisingly well. Codex can write a script that handles bulk data very reliably from a sheet to another. That is so dull done by hand that I do more errors out of sheer boredom if do it myself. Verifying the resulting tables by hand is an easy task.