I work in this space and do a lot of experimentation with AI. We are still a very long way from AI being able to go from owner requirements to finished design or even an acceptable solution. In part that’s because the work products are locked up in proprietary formats and are not easily understood by these models. The industry conventions are based on extremely slow, incremental improvements on Penn and paper based processes that are about a century old. What may surprise you is that computational design is a highly under explored space for market-based reasons that are so complex I would need to write a lengthy blog post just to explain it. If large language models disappeared, you could still have almost entirely automated structural design for Bridges. A large amount of design is just the application of well defined rules to a site specific problem. There are characteristics in shortcuts people take, but you should always be able to get to the same result from first principles.