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

27 points jamessmithe | 1 comments | 10 Sep 25 10:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | 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. moron4hire ◴[10 Sep 25 12:04 UTC] No.45196457[source]▶
In any given week I spend 50 - 60% of my time in meetings. Half of that time is listening to PMs madlib ideas for how AI is going to do everything for us and and the other half is spent listening to junior developers and analysts make excuses for why they haven't gotten anything done in the last week, despite using AI to try to get their jobs done. Across 5 projects employing 15 people, I am the only senior developer and have as much experience as everyone else combined.

I spend 20 - 30% of my week on administrative paperwork. Making sure people are taking their required trainings. Didn't we just do the cyber security ones? Yes, we did, but IT got hacked and lost all the records that we did, so we need to do it again.

I spend 10 - 20% of my week trying to write documentation that Security tells me is absolutely required but has never gotten me any answers from them on whether they are going to approve any of my applications for deployment. In the last 2 years, I've gotten ONE application deployed and I had to weaponize my org chart to get it to happen.

That leaves me about -10 - 20% of the week to get the vast majority of all of the programming done on our projects. Which I do. If you look at the git log, my name dominates.

I don't use AI to write code because I don't have time to dick around with bad results.

I don't use AI to write any of my documentation or memos. People generally praise my communication skills for being easy to read. I certainly don't have time to edit AI's shitty writing.

The only time I use AI is when someone from corporate asks me to "generate an AI-first strategy for blah blah blah". I think it's a garbage initiative so I give them garbage work. It seems to make them happy and then they go away and I go back to writing all the code by hand. Even then, I don't copy-paste the response, I type it out long while reading it, just in case anyone asks me any questions later. Despite everyone telling me "typing speed isn't important to a software developer," I type around 100WPM, so it doesn't take too long. Not blazing fast, but a lot faster than every other developer I know.

So, forgive me if I don't have a lot of sympathy for you. You sound like half the people in my company, claiming AI makes them more productive, yet I can't see anywhere in any hard artifacts where that productivity has occurred.