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My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?

27 points jamessmithe | 4 comments | 10 Sep 25 10:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source

Being an analyst I need to research about the market and work accordingly. With the help of ChatGPT, perplexity and Gemini, I get done 70% of my research work. The rest of the 30% is just pure brainstorming. Then if I need some graphics then I use Canva for designing them. I get the images from them. Sometimes, I create ppts too using it. If I need any videos then i usually use tool like fliki, Lunabloom Ai or invideo to generate video. These tools give me good quality AI generated videos. Then nowadays, AI is also available on social medias. It makes the job easier for me. So basically, Most of my work is completed by AI. The one thing I need to do properly is to give them proper instructions. How do you go about it?
1. miah_ ◴[10 Sep 25 11:13 UTC] No.45196039[source]▶
0% AI, 80% YAML Jockey, 10% SSH Shenanigans, 10% Python programming

Been doing sysadmin since the 90's. Why bother with AI, it just slows me down. I've already scripted my life with automation. Anything not already automated probably takes me a few minutes, and if longer I'll build the automation. Shell scripts and Ansible aren't hard.

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2. eldavojohn ◴[10 Sep 25 12:41 UTC] No.45196802[source]▶
What if you took those scripts that you have used to automate your life, dumped them into something like cursorAI and asked the model to refine them, make them better, improve the output, add interactivity, generalize them, harden them, etc?

Sometimes when I have time to play around I just ask models what stinks in my code or how it could be better with respect to X. It's not always right or productive but it is fun, you should try it!

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3. blibble ◴[10 Sep 25 16:31 UTC] No.45200108[source]▶
> add interactivity

just what I want, interactivity in my ansible playbook

> It's not always right or productive but it is fun, you should try it!

yey, introducing bugs for literally no reason!

4. JustExAWS ◴[10 Sep 25 22:13 UTC] No.45204732[source]▶
And get off your lawn?

I’ve been developing professionally since 1996 and started on Dec Vax and Stratus VOS mainframes in Fortran and C, led the build out of an on prem data center with raised floors etc to hold a SAN with a whopping 3TBs of storage along with other networking gear and server software.

Before I started developing professionally, I did assembly language on 65C02, 68K, PPC and x86 for 10 years.

In between then and now, I’ve programmed professionally in C, C++, VB6, Perl, Python, C#, and JavaScript.

Now all of my work is “cloud native” from development to infrastructure and take advantage of LLMs extensively.

It’s not a mark of honor to brag about you don’t use the latest tools.