I'd like to see those SVPs and PMs, or shit, even a line manager use AI to implement something as simple as a 2-month intern project[1] in a week.
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[1] We generally budget about half an intern's time for finding the coffee machine, learning how to show up to work on time, going on a fun event with the other interns to play minigolf, discovering that unit tests exist, etc, etc.
I actually built something (a time tracking tool that helps developers log their time consistently on jira and harvest) that most developers in my company use in under a week.
I have backend development background so I was able to review the BE code and fix some bugs. But I did not bother learning Jira and Harvest API specs at all, AI (cursor+sonnet 4) figured it out all.
I would not be able to write the front-end of this. It is JS based and updates the UI based on real-time http requests (forgot the name of this technology, the new ajax that is) and I do not have time to learn it but again, I was able to tweak what AI generated and make it work.
Not only AI helped me do something in much shorter than it would take, it enabled me do something that otherwise would not be possible.
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[1] We generally budget about half an intern's time for finding the coffee machine, learning how to show up to work on time, going on a fun event with the other interns to play minigolf, discovering that unit tests exist, etc, etc.